SAYINGS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 223, 20 June 1925, Page 13

SAYINGS IN BRIEF

We come here t-o listen to opposing views.—'Hie Speaker. On the whole the races that have come to the top in civilisation, and which have produced the greatest contribution to the nobler life of mankind, are the pugnacious races. —Professor Gilbert Murray. It is grammar as psychology that defends “It’s me” against grammar as logic if it tries to insist on “It is I.”—Mr. George Sampson. It is hardly worth anybody’s while trying to kill me.—M. Herriot. Tn so far as a social experiment is verv novel, it will p-obaMy be very brief; in so far as it has lasted long, it will probably last longer.—Mr. G. K. Qhcsterton.,

One of the greatest mistakes a woman can make is to think she can reform a man after marriage.—The Hs.rnmersinith Coroner. Women, religion, and trade have been the “Big Three”- causes of war in the history of mankind.—Sir John Brunner, M.P. Parson as I am, I feel grateful for the robust common sense of Dr.. Johnson, who declared that a iwn is seldom so harmlessly occupied as when he is making money.—Dean Inge.

The most beautiful things in England are the trees, the herds, and the people; and tta®, too, the ships.—M. Karel Capek. My chief complaint against Mr. Churchill is that he makes me feel old. —Lord Balfour. The men over forty are ceasing to.be of as much importance to civilisation as the young people.—Mr. J. J. Mallon. I am one of the children, although' my evervday dutv Is to pretend to be grown up.—Miss ’ Ishbel MacDonald. I

The ingenuity of maiden ladies in seaside boardinghouses cannot devise an event so vapid as to escape newspaper description as Sensational.—Mr. Philip Guedalla. I would rather have wiitten “Uncle Toni’s Caliin” than “The Critique of Pure Reafcn.” —Mr. Channing Pollock. Many believe in having a number of irons in tl»e fire, but they forget to look after the fire itself.—Sir Hugh Allen. We have been told that- we are eating too much. Don’t you believe it.—Sir J Crichton-Browne. I would prefer to work in a mine or a factory, but that would deprive some worker of his job.—Mr. Malcolm MacDonald.