SAYINGS OF THE DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 21

SAYINGS OF THE DAY.

Worry gives tlie undertaker more busJness than wort does. More hooligans are being created at the present time than ever before owing to children leaving school early. This will constltnte a problem at the end of the war. ill A. J. MondeUa. The Hun Is only formidable when he thinks that he can be frightful with impunity. •■Blood and Iron" is Ms doctrine so long as It is his iron and someone else's blood.—Sir Conan Doyle. The majority of women are anxious to be thrifty, but our lords and masters who control the destinies of England must be good enough to tell us exactly wiiat is economy.—4 Mrs. Alec Tweedie. No man who Is now crying tor -peace Is a true pacifist, but a simple, involuntary warmonger, who foolishly Imagines there is virtue In postponing an evil day.— A. St. John Adcock. War bums away math, theological dross. Formulas which are phases or reflections of the one great piteous human faith have their stiff boundaries broken down in a time like this.—Sir James YoxalL The German in science Is mtante but suort-elghtcd; the Englishman overlooks much, bnt he stm. possesses the longsighted vision of his seafaring ancestors.— Mr. Havelock Ellis. ■If every person responsible for a Zeppe!t7i raid know that lie was personalty liable to be banged T>y the British. Government on the comclaslon of peace, it might perhaps give him pause.—Dean Wice. "Hastand and wite ctjmot ' by v>e nature of things, be eqnaL There most In every family be a strong commamnng, dominating personality." "Yβ, but that one is generally the coot" — "Baltimore American." Good clothes have a sdUaartty. «n accuracy about them, to which tie last few toocbes of the deft hand, fixed by fnrtive pin or careless stitch, are bat as tbe dewdrop on tie lest the tastJblown Use of the artist.—Violet Hunt. Fifteen or twenty years ago I conJd Ihave taien you to half a dozen places where you would have found lade sleeping out; to-day I do not know of one. Indeed, I do not tUn* boys and side are now to be found sleeping out. The old type of street arab is passing away.-Mr Thomas R. Ackroyd, ton. sec. of the Manchester Boytf and Girls' Refuges. The greatest type of courage to mc bow la a man crouching down beneath, the uarapet of the trench, his BiaH plastered with nmd, not an heroic figure to outward appearance, nothing attractive to the eye. Through the days and tne nights of the long winter he sticks it-and he jokes about it. That is heroism. There is an impression in some dnarters at home that the men like the life. They hate it, and yet they are always cheerful.-'Key. S. W. •Berryj on returnlns teen -tte -Front,