“Time to me this truth has taught
(‘Tis a treasure worth revealing),
More offend from want of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.”
(Charles Swain, English Poet & Engraver, 1801 – 1874)
John Lentell
20th October, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“We discover that the universe shows evidence of a designing or controlling power that has something in common with our own individual minds….We are not so much intruders in the universe as we first thought.”
(From The Mysterious Universe by James Hopwood Jeans, 1877 – 1946)
John Lentell
19th October, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“Love’s stricken ‘why’
Is all that love can speak
Built of but just a syllable
The hugest hearts that break.”
(Emily Dickinson, 1830 -1886)
John Lentell
18th October, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“If only 1% of the money spent upon the physical and biological sciences could be spent on upon the investigations of religious experience and physical research it might not be long before a new age of faith dawned upon the world.”
(Professor Alister Hardy, 1896 – 1985)
John Lentell
17th October, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“God’s gift was that man should conceive of truth
And yearn to gain it, catching at mistake
As midway help till he reach fact indeed.”
(From A Death in the Desert by Robert Browning, 1812 – 1889)
John Lentell
16th October, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“If we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.”
(From Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by Wilfred Trotter, 1872 – 1939)
John Lentell
15th October, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Figures cannot lie but liars can figure.”
(Parkinson)
John Lentell
14th October, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“A small time columnist gate-crashed a grand party given by one of America’s leading actresses. On leaving he gave her a damp hand and said, ‘Thanks for the swell party.’
‘That’s perfectly all right,’ said the actress, ‘Do remind me to invite you next time.'”
John Lentell
13th October, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“Antique – something no one would be seen with if there were more of them.”
John Lentell
11th October, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began;
So it is now when I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound to each by natural piety.”
(My heart leaps up when I behold by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850)
John Lentell
10th October, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”
(A youthful aphorism by Sir Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965)
John Lentell
9th October, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and etching every particle in its tissue.”
(Henry James, 1843 – 1916)
John Lentell
8th October, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“England has certainly got rid of a good deal of its refuse through means of emigration……she has (also) been disembarrassed of a vast number of turbulent radicals and the like, men who are decidely able but by no means eminent, and whose zeal, self-confidence and irreverance far out-balance their other qualities.”
(Sir Francis Galton, 1822 – 1991)
John Lentell
7th October, 1969
Tuesday’s Piece
“Read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.”
(Sir Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626)
John Lentell
6th October, 1969
Monday’s Piece
“I would that one’s active life lasted for 100 years and that each day were twice as long.”
(From ‘Testament of Experience’ by Vera Brittain, 1893 – 1970)
John Lentell
5th October, 1969
Sunday’s Piece
“The freedom which is our goal is far more than the freedom of political independence, and far more than the freedom which is the doctrine of ‘one man, one vote’ would confer. It is freedom from want, freedom from ignorance, freedom from the brutal savagery of tribalism; freedom from superstition and witchcraft, freedom from intimidation; and the freedom of equality before the law.”
(Sir Roy Welensky, 1907 – 1991)
John Lentell
4th October, 1969
Saturday’s Piece
Nobody knows ‘the other half’ like the other half!
John Lentell
3rd october, 1969
Friday’s Piece
“Look to the left and look to the right
And you’ll never, never get run over.”
(Part of a song we used to sing in the Shirley Temple Club on Saturday morning at the Odeon Cinema in Taunton, Somerset – circa 1935!)
John Lentell
2nd October, 1969
Thursday’s Piece
My car is about to clock up 200,000 miles. What a friend!
John Lentell
1st October, 1969
Wednesday’s Piece
“There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.”
(Anatole France, 1844 – 1924)
John Lentell
30th September, 1969
Lentell Soup 