Most road accidents occur on Saturday and Sunday. It’s a great life if you don’t week-end.

John Lentell
7 November 1971

A woman should hold on to her youth, but not when he’s driving.

John Lentell
6 November 1971

“To rejoice at a success is not the same as taking credit for it. To deny oneself the first is to become a hypocrite and a denier of life; to permit oneself the second is a childish indulgence which will prevent one from ever growing up.”

(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961, Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations)

John Lentell
5 November 1971

Would the makers of a very popular sliced bread contemplate an alternative pack of thicker slices so that we can enjoy a respectable piece of toast and fried bread?

John Lentell
4 November 1971

Patient: “Five dollars is an awful lot of money for pulling a tooth – two seconds work.”
Dentist: “Well, if you wish, I can pull it slowly.”

John Lentell
1 November 1971

A woman sent her son little boy to the store for two pounds pf plums. Finding that they weighed only 1½lbs she telephoned to complain.
“I’m sure my scales are correct,” insisted the storekeeper. “Have you weighed your son?”

John Lentell
3 November 1971

“Great men never feel great; small men never feel small.”

John Lentell
2 November 1971

“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”

(Charles Caleb Colton, 1777 – 1832, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities)

John Lentell
31 October 1971

(Photo: British Hotel, Simons Town, Western Cape, designed by my great grandfather John Parker)

“Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offences for which others are not even indicted.”

(Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC)

John Lentell
30 October 1971

(Photo: tobacco trading floor, Harare 2018)

A man who won’t lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

John Lentell
29 October 1971

(Photo: Carmina & Serena, NZ 2015)

People who have half an hour to spend usually spend it with someone who hasn’t.

John Lentell
28 October 1971

(Photo: V&A Waterfront, Cape Town)

A young man was asked by a widow to guess her age. “You must have some idea,” she said as he hesitated.
“I have several ideas,” he admitted with a smile. “The only trouble is that I hesitate whether to make you ten years younger on account of your looks, or ten years older on account of your brains.”

John Lentell
27 October 1971

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.”

(Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance)

John Lentell
26 October 1971

(Photo: Willoughby & Co., Cape Town, February 2020)