SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 19

SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

s Many a man mates poor Jokes. It is a wise young man that chooses his own father-in-law. Whenever a woman aims at originality, «p pops Grundy. ' "Society" is now a clique. After a while it will really be society. What's the good of earing any woman from her infatnation? She'll only hate you for it .—E. Temple Thurston. Many a man would starve if he had Bothing to live on but his reputation. An orator is the man who tickles the ear . so nicely that it doesn't hear the clock tick. Some men who couldn't referee a catight think that they would make great preachers. The man who loses his money has the , satisfaction of losing most of his enemies ■with it. Still when yon see a girl kissing a dog, yon ought to remember that the dog doesn't •moke cigarettes.—"Washington Herald." A pessimist is a person -who expects ■otning, and is disappointed if he doesn't <et it.—"Pearson's." The worst of lore in a cottage is that the love doesn't last, and the cottage does.— "Pearson's." Any right-minded girl would sooner wear ■ new hat that didn't suit her than an old tot that did.—Prank Blcfiai<deon. It is impossible for anyone to propose anything, so foolish that there will be none to cheer him.—"Albany Journal." It is hard to convince a lame duck that Xhe barnyard doesn't miss him.—"Boston Transcript." Socialism will destroy no property right tave the assumed right of one man to make property of the person or products of another. The company promoter has been sumrrised as a man who will supply the ocean yon agree to furnish all the ships. But ■eneraily he also wante you to pay him for tie use of the ocean and for the right to *nild the ships. No watch-uog Is as effective In keeping fie wolf from the door as an honest heart and willing hands. A credit for good intentions ta a good thing to have, bnt a cash credit is more available in an emergency. — "Deseret News." "Our prayers ought to be intelligent as well as "devout," declared Dr. Parkhurst in his sermon on Peace Prayer Day. But ought they? Isn't this a contradiction in terms? If we were intelligent enough to know how to get peace, we wouldn't have to pray for it. Devotion and a feeling of helplessness are apt to begin at the same moment. We fall back on the unseen when the seen goes back on us. Hence the spasms ot piety which seize victims of shipwreck fend other catastrophes. —"Life," "New *Xork.