Hate – See Love.
(Heading in one of my reference books!)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20th July, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
(Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
I think that life is not too long,
And therefore I determine,
That many people read a song,
Who will not read a sermon.
(W. Mackworth Praed, 1802 – 1839)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
18th July, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
I ain’t never done nothin’ to nobody;
I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody;
And until I get somethin’ from somebody, sometime,
I don’t intend to do nothin’ for nobody, no time.
(From Nobody, song lyrics by Alex Rogers, 1905)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
17th July, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
Think of yourself as “he” instead of “I”.
(From Watch Yourself Go By by Strickland Gillilan, 1869–1954)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
16th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Intuition – the strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th July, 1971
Saturdays’s Piece
“Did your husband die a natural death?” Mrs Smith was asked.
“Oh, no” she replied.
“He had a doctor.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Tired
And lonely,
So tired
The heart aches.
Meltwater trickles
Down the rocks,
The fingers are numb,
The knees tremble.
It is now,
Now, that you must not give in.
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 -1961)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
The Kinsey Reports proved just one thing: women like to talk.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away.
(Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th August, 1971
Monday’s Piece
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
False – furtive. When shut of the room, you must not peep through the key-hole. Either break down the door, or go away.
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
(Froude, 1818 – 1894)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th July, 1971
Friday’s Piece
O grant me, heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature’s ends,
With something left to treat my friends.
(David Mallet, 1705 – 1765)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th July, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
A glass of port in his hand and a fat cigar in his mouth, with a huge and bloody red steak which he puts in his mouth in big chunks, and chew and chatters and smokes until the blood trickles down his chin – and to think this monster comes of a good family.
(Goebbels‘ picture of Winston Churchill on the Front Bench of the House of Commons, 1943)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th July, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
So Geographers, in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o’er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
All religions must be tolerated..for…every man must get to heaven his own way.
(Frederick the Great, 1712 – 1786)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
“Do you know who made you?”
“Nobody as I knows on,” said the child, with a short laugh… “I spect I grow’d. Don’t think nobody never made me.”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811- 1896)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3rd July, 1971
Friday’s Piece
I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
(Laurence Sterne, 1713 – 1768)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2nd July, 1971
