SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 21

SAYINGS OF TO-DAY.

All Mexican ballets should be for Americans.—General Villa. Y.onr friends speak worse of yon Chan your enemies. With a woman, love is often nothing but the pride they feel at being loved. A quail on ttaet is worth a dozen In rne other fellow's game bag. Never judge a hen by on.c cold storage eggs you have for breakfast. There are many men of many minds, some of whom even mind their own. business. We can explain everything atooot Shakespeare except his genius.—l>r. Felix E. Scbelling. Teuton scientists seem to tare found a substitute for everything but war.—"Wall Street Journal." If yon wish to have a firm friend choose ont? who can do something better than yourself. When a man raises his hat to n lady and discovers she is a stranger, it requires come tact to make believe he is only scratdbing his head. W*o does not see that the woman neither good nor bad is a greater danger to civilisation than the woman who makes no bones of her badness?—Mr Harold Begbie. Not being a Cabinet Minister, I have always Jield the blabbing of confidential information to be neither a dignified nor an attractive occupation.—Sir Henry, Cratt. Them as breeds dogs don't make pets of flogi—no more nor a Iwier would make a pet of a quartern loaf.—iHr Barry Pain in "Mc and Harris." In the German manuals of geogra-phy used In schools Holland is included In "Germany in the proper sense of the word."—Mr Francis Gribble. Germany complains ot our defective nentrallty, but finds onr harbours neutral enough to intern In.—"New Yors Evening ■Post." I would sweep th« steps of the War Office if it would do tHe conntry good.— Lord Montagu of Hcaulfcu. The German conception of women is lower »i"" tot of the Zuhn in Tsehaafca's day.--(Mr Arnold White. Up u> now uue cardinal sin. of the Government has been to treat the nation not as Englishmen, but as cowards from, whom tbe truth must be concealed.—Karl Grey. The barriers of class distinction have been so broken down that aristocrats are now flgbting side by side with common labourers.-- BX. Hon. Will Crooks, M.P.