“A stone mason was ordered to carve ‘Lord, she was thine’ on a tombstone. He found that he had not worked out his spaces correctly and there was no room for the last letter. The finished job read:-
‘Lord, she was thin’.
John Lentell
21st February, 1970
“It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.”
(Confucius, 551 BC – 479 BC)
John Lentell
20th February, 1970
“Dale Martin…..was….ordered by a judge in Vancouver to avoid making any woman pregnant for the next three years. Martin (22) an entertainer, was given a suspended sentence and placed on three years probation for having an offensive weapon.”
(Report in the Sunday Mail, Salisbury)
John Lentell
18th February, 1970
(Submitted but rejected for publication by the Rhodesia Herald newspaper)
“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
18th February, 1970
“Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
(Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784)
John Lentell
19th February, 1970
“…..women seem to me to be divided into two groups – those who reason and those who are forever casting about for reasons for their own lack of reason.”
(The Duchess of Windsor, 1896 – 1986)
John Lentell
17th February, 1970
“The pressure of profits and the shortage of space make press lords unwilling to employ good reporters…”
(Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
16th February, 1970
“And for whatever else he was, good or bad, he was an individual. That’s what’s most important to me today, when everybody around seems to be some kind of damn ostrich.”
(George C. Scott of General Patton)
Joihn Lentell
15th February, 1970
“Rhodesia is a young country with plenty of potential and a lot of scope for real work to be done….”
(Rev. Rudolph van Niekerk – Rhodesia Herald 12/2/70)
John Lentell
14th February, 1970
“Philosopher: a person who says he doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on, because he eats both sides anyway.”
John Lentell (1926 – 1993)
13th February, 1970
“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”
(Sir Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626)
John Lentell
12th February, 1970
“….a touch of controversy makes for dramatic viewing….he’s probably obeying the programme producer’s instructions, anyway…..?
(signed) ‘More Controversy’, Salisbury.
*This correspondence is now closed.”
(Points from the Post, Look and Listen – TV guide magazine)
John Lentell
11th February, 1970
Gour’s note: I have no bleed’in idea whatsoever what this piece was all about, go figure…
There are eight million antique dealers in this naked city. This is (has been?) one of them!
John Lentell
10th February, 1970
“…..the prime minister, like the cabinet, is constantly having things done to him – by America, Russia, the TUC, the Opposition, and even his own colleagues, which spoil any pattern he may be devising, and provide further muddle.”
(Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)
John Lentell
9th February, 1970
“There are still many things I cannot understand and many things that frighten me. And I know that I still have a very long way to go. I have had experiences that make me doubt, and even tempt me to cynicism so that I attempt, for days altogether, to leave God out of my life. How bleak and dreary, how lonely and miserable they are!”
(From The Christian Agnostic by Leslie Weatherhead, 1893 – 1976)
John Lentell
8th February, 1970
“The sense of original sin would show….not that man was fallen from a high estate, but that he was rising in moral culture with more rapidity than the nature of his race could follow.”
(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
7th February, 1970
“….human love is a holy thing, the holiest in our experience…..love, created by time and experience….invincible against the disillusionments of the years. I had always found it difficult to understand the readiness with which some middle-aged couples divorced each other, and thereby cast away the accumulated treasures of their past.”
(From ‘Testament of Experience’ by Vera Brittain, 1893 – 1970)
John Lentell
6th February, 1970
“Every acre……of the globe, demands thought before its biological and visual relations are altered.”
(Fraser Darling,
“Many ecologists are certain that without this loving guardianship we shall ravage our planet and crash down into a new Dark Age.”
(Gerald Leach, Science Correspondent, The Observer)
John Lentell
5th February, 1970
“All people have their blind side – their superstitions.”
(From Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, 1775 – 1834)
John Lentell
4th February, 1970
“Don’t ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.”
(Josh Billings, 1818 – 1885)
John Lentell
2nd February, 1970
Lentell Soup 