“Here’s to God’s first thought, Man!
Here’s to God’s second thought, Woman!
Second thought’s are always the best,
So here’s to Woman!”
(A toast for all occasions, to women – unknown origin)
John Lentell
30th August, 1970
(Model with Utopian jewellery by John Lentell
“He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”
(Proverb of unknown origin)
John Lentell
29th August, 1970
“Understand – through the stillness,
Act – out of stillness,
Conquer – in the stillness,…”
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
28th August, 1970
“…what did become
of my heart when I first saw thee?
I brought a heart into the room,
But from the room, I carried none with me.”
(From the ‘The Broken Heart‘ by John Donne, 1572 – 1631)
John Lentell
27th August, 1970
“Some day you’ll eat a breakfast, Shaw, and then God help all women!”
(Mrs. Pat Campbell, 1865 – 1940)
John Lentell
26th August, 1970
“I don’t mind being a grandfather,” Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg remarked to his wife when informed of the birth of his first grandchild, “but I’m a little dubious about being married to a grandmother.”
Barian Miller in the Washington Post
John Lentell
25th August, 1970
“You say reserve and modesty he has,
Whose heart is iron, his head wood, and his face brass.
The fox, the owl, the spider, and the bat,
By sweet reserve and modesty grow fat.”
(William Blake, 1757 – 1827)
John Lentell
24th August, 1970
“Ronald said he was not prepared to give any undertaking not to see Mrs. A…. ‘I am prepared to marry her if she is willing,’ he declared. The chairman: ‘Then you will be remanded for a medical report.’ ”
John Lentell
23rd Augsut, 1970
“And sigh that only one thing has been lent
To youth and age in common – discontent.”
(From Youth’s Agitations, poem, by Matthew Arnold, 1822 – 1888)
John Lentell
20th August, 1970
“The dishonesty of some writers – and of some editors who buy their nonsense, knowing it to be nonsense – is truly breathtaking.”
(From Spy; twenty years in Soviet secret service by Gordon Lonsdale – Konon Trofimovich Molody, 1922 – 1970)
John Lentell
19th August, 1970
“I have tried, too, in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
(Oliver Edwards in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)
John Lentell
18th August, 1970
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
(Montesquieu – Charles-Louis de Secondat, 1689 – 1755)
John Lentell
17th August, 1970
“As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
(Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
16th August, 1970
“Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.”
(Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862)
John Lentell
15th August, 1970
” ‘Thou shalt not cheat thyself’ ought to be the first of all commandments. The ability to obey it is in direct proportion to the ability of being honest with others.”
(From On Aggression by Konrad Lorenz, 1903 – 1989)
John Lentell
14th August, 1970
“Alimony: the high cost of leaving.”
John Lentell
13th August, 1970
“Riches are like muck, which stink in a heap, but spread abroad make the earth fruitful.”
(Unknown)
John Lentell
“At the beginning of this year the new headmistress and the trustees decided to clamp down on discipline.”
(Sunday Mail – 9th August, 1970)
John Lentell
11th August, 1970
“A prominent man, when asked what other person he would rather be than himself, replied ‘My wife’s second husband.’ That was true love and beautiful loyalty.”
(Nathan Howard Cist)
John Lentell
10th August, 1970
“I’ve lost my key and I am waiting for my children to come home and let me in” said the man found sitting on his doorstep by a policeman at 3 o’c clock in the morning!
John Lentell
8th August, 1970
Lentell Soup 