“It seems in some cases kind nature hath planned,
That names with their calling agree,
For Twining the Teaman that lives in the Strand
Would be ‘Wining’ deprived of his T”.
(Theodore Hook, 1788 – 1841)
John Lentell
29th November 1969
(Sorry for missed “pieces”, have been in Vietnam with my hot new girlfriend! – Gour)
“….a Puritan tendency is by no means an essential part of a religious disposition. The Puritan’s character is joyless and morose; he is most happy, or, to speak less paradoxically, most at peace with himself when sad. It is a mental condition correlated with the well-known Puritan features, black straight hair, hollowed cheeks, and sallow complexion.”
(From Hereditary Genius published in 1869 by by Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1911)
John Lentell
28th November, 1969
“Surely we in (South Africa) can have no truck with dictatorship in any form, whether it is that dictatorship of the proletariat which is Communism, or that dictatorship of the individual, a group, which is Fascism.”
(J.H. Hofmeyr, 1894 – 1948)
John Lentell
27th November, 1969
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”
(Macbeth, when asked why he killed Duncan’s alleged assassins, William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616)
John Lentell
26th November, 1969
“People wouldn’t get divorced for such trivial reasons, if they didn’t get married for such trivial reasons.”
(Source unknown)
John Lentell
25th November, 1969
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.”
(John Seleden, 1584 – 1654)
John Lentell
24th November, 1969
“In the past fourteen years, long consideration of the march of scientific and material events has convinced me of the certainty of a personal immortality…..Every material and scientific signpost points to the finality of death. Yet I believe we are immortal.”
(Professor Ian Aird, 1905 – 1962, Professor of Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London)
John Lentell
23rd November, 1969
“We must touch his weaknesses with a delicate hand. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue.”
(Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 -1774)
John Lentell
22nd November, 1969
“To procrastinate over our best inner urges is to rob ourselves of much of the bounce and guts of life.”
(William Moulton Marston, 1893 – 1947)
John Lentell
21st November, 1969
“There is in all of us an unseeing urge towards self-fulfilment. We know the kind of person we want to be because of our impulses, even when enfeebled by disuse, tell us. Impulsive action is not to be substituted for reason, but used as a means of showing the direction reason is to take.”
(William Moulton Marston, 1893 – 1947)
John Lentell
20th November, 1969
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.”
(Edmund Burke, 1729 – 1797)
John Lentell
19th November, 1969
“As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.”
(John Stuart Mill, 1806 – 1873)
John Lentell
18th November, 1969
“See the happy moron,
He doesn’t give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,
My God! Perhaps I am!”
(Anon)
John Lentell
17th November, 1969
“May he support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging and a holy rest, and peace at the last.”
(John Henry Newman – Cardinal Newman, 1801 – 1890)
John Lentell
16th November, 1969
“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes – will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
(John Stuart Mill, 1806 – 1873)
John Lentell
15th November, 1969
There is absolutely no truth in the rumour going around Salisbury that ‘you know who’ is going to be taken over by ‘you know who’!
John Lentell
14th November, 1969
“”Do you know who made you?” Nobody, as I knows on,” said the child, with a short laugh…..”I ‘spect I grow’d””
(Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 – 1896)
John Lentell
13th November, 1969
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have only been a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
(Sir Isaac Newton, 1643 – 1727)
John Lentell
12th November, 1969
“Minds like ours, my dear James, must always be above national prejudices, and in all companies it gives me true pleasure to declare, that, as a people, the English are very little indeed inferior to the Scotch.”
(Christopher North, 1785 – 1854)
John Lentell
11th November, 1969
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)
10th November, 1969
Lentell Soup 