“The more men talked about nationality, language and sacred rights, the less did they value those things. They should beware, lest with all that empty claptrap they forgot the things that did matter.”
(General Smuts, 1870 – 1950)
John Lentell
7th July, 1970
When columnist Merryle Stanley Rukeyser got up to speak at a luncheon of the Pittsburg Advertising Club, he asked the president, “How long shall I speak?”
The president told him cheerfully, “Take as long as you like – we all leave at 1:30”.
John Lentell
6th July, 1970
“Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. You are as young as faith, as old as your doubt; as young as self confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
(Samuel Ullman,1840 – 1924)
John Lentell
5th July, 1970
“….our greatest hope is that you will produce many young Rhodesians, born and bred here, because they will be our greatest asset.” (Prime Minister – Rhodesia Herald 2/7/20)
“The 10 African Chiefs in Senate, some of whom are in their early prime and the rest probably still willing and able, between them have 101 children – at the moment. By the end of their first term of office there could be an additional 50, or 150….” (Letter to Rhodesia Herald 2/7/70)
John Lentell
4th July, 1970
“Sign in restaurant window: Pies like mother makes them – 5 cents. Pies that mother tried to make but couldn’t – 10 cents.”
John Lentell
3rd July, 1970
“Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal, once decided a dispute between two brothers about an inheritance of land in South Africa thus: ‘Let one brother divide the land, and the other have first choice.'”
(From a book by Sarah Gertrude Millin)
John Lentell
2nd July, 1970
“I believe in legal protest within the Constitutional limits of free speech, including peaceful assembly and the right of petition. But I do not believe that demonstrations, lawful or unlawful, merit my approval or even my silence where the purpose is fundamentally unsound.”
(U.S. Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, 1918 – 1996)
John Lentell
1st July, 1970
“…..the transformation of party politics into party machines is one way of imposing on the electors a form of totalitarianism, a very mild form of totalitarianism no doubt, but still a menace to the political health of the country.”
(Compton Mackenzie, 1883 – 1972)
John lentell
30th June, 1970
I’ve had a big distracting work year growing and raising funding for our mobile start-up biNu. We’re now all set for an even bigger year ahead and it’s time to re-start Lentell Soup’s daily pieces….hope you enjoy.
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
John lentell
29th June, 1970
“A young bride walked into a chemist and timidly asked if the baby tonic they advertised really made babies bigger and stronger. Assured that it did and that they had never had a complaint she bought a bottle. Minutes later she returned, took the chemist into a corner and whispered into his ear, ‘I forgot to ask – who takes it, me or my husband?’.”
John Lentell
27th June, 1970
“….in A.D. 2061 people will find it….difficult to understand how the ghastly mumbo-jumbo of hanging a man could still have survived in a civilised society a hundred years ago.”
(‘On Moral Courage‘ by Compton Mackenzie, 1883 – 1972)
John Lentell
25th June, 1970
How magnanimous and what a fine beginning it would be to his reign if Ted Heath sent george Brown to the House of Lords – assuming of course that he wants to go.
John Lentell
24th June, 1970
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
(Blaise Pascal, 1623 – 1662)
John Lentell
6th August, 1970
“My Analyze over the ocean
My Analyze over the sea
Oh, who will go over the ocean
And bring back my Anatomy.”
(Written by a student when asked to compose something to incude the words “analyze” and “anatomy”!)
John Lentell
23rd June, 1970
“‘The Tory party is run by about five people” said one leading Tory: ‘and they all treat their followers with disdain: they’re mostly Etonians, and Eton is good for disdain.'”
(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
22nd June, 1970
“Can you still feel the warmth of fish and chips through a newspaper? That is something only the English experience. It is the most comforting sensation in the whole world…”
(From ‘Letter for Tomorrow‘ by Rosemary Ross Skinner)
John Lentell
21st June, 1970
“An English lady, self-appointed supervisor of village morals, accused a workman of having reverted to drink because ‘with her own eyes’ she had seen his wheelbarrow standing outside a public house.
The accused man said little in his defence, but the same evening he placed his wheelbarrow outside her door and left it there all night.”
John Lentell
20th June, 1970
“Order your thinking. Begin with the most simple objects so as to rise as if by steps to a knowledge of the most complex.”
(René Descartes, 1596 – 1650)
John Lentell
26th June, 1970
Lentell Soup 