I never could understand how a person speaking only English thought it funny to hear broken english spoken by a foreigner who could speak 10 other languages too.
(Gracie Allen, 1895 – 1964)
John Lentell
9th March, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the public.
(William Hazlitt, 1788 – 1830, The First Modern Man)
John Lentell
8th March, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
(Edith Cavell, 1865 – 1915, to Rev. Gahan on night before her execution in 1915)
John Lentell
7th March, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
She loved him, but probably no woman can live with a man for many years without having an indulgent contempt for him, and wondering how he is considered a good man of business.
(J. M. barrie, 1860 – 1937)
John Lentell
6th March, 1971
Saturday’s Piece (2)
A shop for Salisbury called ‘Copy Cat’.
That’s a good idea!
John Lentell
4th March, 1971
Saturday’s Piece (3)
REPS is one of the reasons why I stay in Rhodesia!
John Lentell
5th March, 1971
Friday’s Piece
He who proves things by experience increases his knowledge; he who believes blindly increases his errors.
(Chinese proverb)
John Lentell
3rd March, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
The formula of my happiness:
A yes, A no, a straight line, a goal.
(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900)
John Lentell
2nd March, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity but never a man who misses one.
(Talleyrand, 1754 – 1838)
John Lentell
1st March, 1971
Monday’s Piece
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
(Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882)
John Lentell
28th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
(Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947)
John Lentell
27th February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that the past is always her lover and her future invariably her husband.
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
26th February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
Amoebas at the start
Were not complex
They tore themselves apart
And started sex.
(Arthur Guiterman, 1871 – 1943)
John Lentell
25th February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
There’s no moss on the moon boys,
It’s all dry up there.
There’s no moss on the moon boys,
So why go up there?
John Lentell
24th February, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
(Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910)
John Lentell
23rd February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me, and awaits my spirit too.
For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
(George Linnaeus Banks, 1821 – 1881)
John Lentell
22nd February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
I have bravery to spend on pain
I have faith to wall up fear
I have courage to fight danger when it comes
But there is no defence against loneliness.
(Joan Walsh Anglund, 1926 – )
John Lentell
21st February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
There’s a wonderful family called Stein,
There’s Gert, and there’s Epp, and there’s Ein:
Gert’s poems are bunk,
Epp’s statues are junk,
And no one can understand Ein.
(Anon)
John Lentell
20th February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
There was an old man of Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
John Lentell
19th February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
(Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910)
John Lentell
18th February, 1971
September 1-2, 1867, Pera, Constantinople
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