Love is as strong as death…
“Many waters cannot quench love,
Neither can floods drown it.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th June, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
As long as men have existed, man has enjoyed himself too little; that alone, my brothers, is our original sin!
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th June, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!
(Cassio in Othello, by William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th June, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
‘Conservatism’ – unadventurous devotion to convenience.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th June, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Life is adventure in experience, and when you are no longer greedy for the last drop of it, it means no more than you have set your face….to the day when you shall depart.
(Donald C. Peattie – 1898 – 1964)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th June, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Between a woman’s Yes and No
There is not room for a pin to go.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13th June, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.
(Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th June, 1972
Saturday’s Piece
Beware the fury of a patient man.
(John Dryden, 1631 – 1700)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th June, 1971
Friday’s Piece
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – sometimes three.
(Alexandre Dumas, 1802 – 1870)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th June, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
(Hervey Allen, 1889 – 1949)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th June, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
But it’s easy ‘nough to titter w’en de stew is smokin’ hot,
But hit’s mighty ha’d to giggle w’en dey’s nuffin’ in de pot.
(From Philosophy by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 – 1906)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th June, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Some praise at morning what they blame at night,
But always think the last opinion right.
(Alexander Pope, 1688 – 1744)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th June, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
English, Scotchmen, Jews, do well in Ireland – Irishmen never; even the patriot has to leave Ireland to get a hearing.
(George Moore, 1852 – 1933)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th June, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
“Make way for liberty!” he cried,
Made way for liberty, and died.
(James Montgomery, The Patriot’s Password)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4th June, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Home is the place where, when you go there,
They have to take you in.
(Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3rd June, 1971
(My childhood home, Harare)
Wednesday’s Piece
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
(Resumé – Poem by Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2nd June, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Figures won’t lie, but liars will figure.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
1st June, 1971
(Yours truly bowling..)
Saturday’s Piece
As a beauty I’m not a great star,
There are others more handsome by far;
But my face I don’t mind it
Because I’m behind it –
‘Tis the folks out in front that I jar.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
31st May, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
And when the religious sects ran mad,
He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man’s belief is bad,
It will not be improved by burning.
(W. M. Praed – ‘The Vicar’)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
30th May, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
(Henry Adams, 1838 – 1918)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
29th May, 1971
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