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
‘Conservatism’ – unadventurous devotion to convenience.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
15th June, 1971
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
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
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
(John Dryden, 1631 – 1700)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th June, 1971
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
