“Did your husband die a natural death?” Mrs Smith was asked.
“Oh, no” she replied.
“He had a doctor.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
14th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Tired
And lonely,
So tired
The heart aches.
Meltwater trickles
Down the rocks,
The fingers are numb,
The knees tremble.
It is now,
Now, that you must not give in.
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 -1961)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
13th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
The Kinsey Reports proved just one thing: women like to talk.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
12th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away.
(Dorothy Parker, 1893 – 1967)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th August, 1971
Monday’s Piece
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
11th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
False – furtive. When shut of the room, you must not peep through the key-hole. Either break down the door, or go away.
(Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 – 1961)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
10th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
(Froude, 1818 – 1894)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
9th July, 1971
Friday’s Piece
O grant me, heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature’s ends,
With something left to treat my friends.
(David Mallet, 1705 – 1765)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
8th July, 1971
Thursday’s Piece
A glass of port in his hand and a fat cigar in his mouth, with a huge and bloody red steak which he puts in his mouth in big chunks, and chew and chatters and smokes until the blood trickles down his chin – and to think this monster comes of a good family.
(Goebbels‘ picture of Winston Churchill on the Front Bench of the House of Commons, 1943)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
7th July, 1971
Wednesday’s Piece
Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were.
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
6th July, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
So Geographers, in Afric-maps
With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps;
And o’er uninhabitable Downs
Place Elephants for want of Towns.
(Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
5th July, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
All religions must be tolerated..for…every man must get to heaven his own way.
(Frederick the Great, 1712 – 1786)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
4th July, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
“Do you know who made you?”
“Nobody as I knows on,” said the child, with a short laugh… “I spect I grow’d. Don’t think nobody never made me.”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811- 1896)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
3rd July, 1971
Friday’s Piece
I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
(Laurence Sterne, 1713 – 1768)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
2nd July, 1971
Monday’s Piece
Love is only chatter,
Friends are all that matter.
(Gelett Burgess, 1866 – 1951)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
24th June, 1971
Sunday’s Piece
Just outside my wisdom
are words that would answer everything.
(Joan Walsh Anglund, 1926 – )
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
23rd June, 1971
Saturday’s Piece
Asked if he believed in luck, Jean Cocteau the French writer replied: “Certainly. How else do you explain the success of those you don’t like?”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
22nd June, 1971
Friday’s Piece
Asked what kind of exercise he took, a man answered:
“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
21st June, 1971
Tuesday’s Piece
When in America, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, the grand old man of the Chinese diplomatic service in his day, was questioned sweetly by an American:
“What ‘nese are you – Japanese, Javanese, Chinese?”
Replying that he was Chinese, he asked in turn:
“And what ‘kee are you – monkey, donkey or Yankee?”
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
20th June, 1971
Monday’s Piece
The best of life is always ahead,
Always further on.
(Philosophy of Sir. William Mulock who died at the age of 100)
John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
19th June, 1971
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