If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
(Anonymous)
John Lentell
17th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
The human knee is a joint and not an entertainment.
(Percy Hammond)
John Lentell
16th February, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Life is just one damned thing after another.
(Frank Ward O’Malley – authorship disputed)
John Lentell
15th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve ’em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catched
The itch, on purpose to be scratched.
(Samuel Butler, 1613 – 1680)
John Lentell
14th February, 1971
Monday’s Piece
I’m not denying the women are foolish:
God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
(George Eliot, 1819 – 1880)
John Lentell
13th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
(Elbert Hubbard, 1856 – 1915)
John Lentell
12th February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Babies haven’t any hair;
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.
(Samuel Hoffenstein, 1890 – 1947)
John Lentell
11th February, 1971
Friday’s Piece
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
10th February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
I’ve shut the door on yesterday
And thrown away the key –
Tomorrow holds no fears for me,
Since I have found today.
(Vivian Y. Laramore, 1892 – 1975)
John Lentell
9th February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect, which women never do.
(Anonymous – written on a looking glass)
John Lentell
8th February, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
Property has its duties as well as its rights.
(Captain Thomas Drummond, 1797 – 1840)
John Lentell
7th February, 1971
Monday’s Piece
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!
(John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 – 1892)
John Lentell
5th February, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Man, biologically considered…is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
(William James, 1842 – 1910)
John Lentell
4th February, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
(Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
3rd February, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Sometimes we suspect the heart, even if the tongue be truthful.
John Lentell
2nd February, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
A conference is a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
John Lentell
1st February, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
(George Burns, 1896 – 1996)
John Lentell
31st January, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him – the sympathetic woman gets him.
(Helen Rowland, 1875 – 1950)
John Lentell
30th January, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Some people are like blotters – they soak it all in but get it all backwards.
John Lentell
29th January, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
The man who rows the boat generally doesn’t have time to rock it.
John Lentell
27th January, 1971
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