I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.

(Robert Browning)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20 December 1971

The milk of human kindness ran
In rich abundance in his breast,
It left thin grease stains on the tan
Of his asbestos vest.

(Paul Tanaquil – Philanthropist)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19 December 1971

Cause I’s wicked, I is. I’s mighty wicked, anyhow. I can’t help it.

(Harriet B. Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18 December 1971

Loneliness is onlyness.

(A Salisbury friend)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17 December 1971

My son tells me that there are three ways to send a message – telephone, telegram and telewoman.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16 December 1971

I prefer the most unjust peace to the justest war that was ever waged.

(Cicero)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15 December 1971

There are many people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of.

(François de La Rochefoucauld)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14 December 1971

He loves his bonds, who, when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke.

(Robert Herrick)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13 December 1971

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person concerned?

(Mark Twain)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11 December 1971

I wonder how many Rhodesian man hours are wasted each year holding on to telephones while people look for pencils?

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10 December 1971

“A different cause,” says Parson Sly,
“The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears that he may die;
His wife that he may live”.

(Matthew Prior)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9 December 1971

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

John Lentell
8 December 1971

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

(Shakespeare)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6 December 1971

My way of joking is to tell the truth.
It’s the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5 December 1971

I know some poison I could drink.
I’ve often thought I’d taste it.
But Mother bought it for the sink,
And drinking it would waste it.

(Edna St. Vincent Millay – “I know a hundred ways to die”)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4 December 1971

 

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

(Brander Mathews)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3 December 1971

“… And you mustn’t discount ego.”

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2 December 1971

“Women are superior to men which is why they have the role of submission in life … submission comes naturally to women because it doesn’t.”

(Hilary Muller, aged 16)

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
30 November 1971