SAYINGS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 17

SAYINGS IN BRIEF

A professor cannot succeed in the House of Commons; they suspect he is going to teach before he starts.—Frank Gray.

The essential reason for my existence, ray devoted longing, shall be to shed happiness over the world, to pour the wine of kindness upon the eager mouths around me.—Amado Nervo.

To-dav the “movie star” may hope for six or seven times the emoluments of an archbishop or a Lord Chancellor, and twenty times those of the Prime Minister of England.—The “Evening Standard.”

I have known men proud of voting as their grandfathers did What contempt their grandfathers would have had for them.—Frank Gray.

Conferences are becoming the bane of our existence. We are getting the con feretice habit.—Archibald Hurd in “Fortnightly Review.”

A large proportion of our people are frankly pagan.—Dr. Albert Peele,

Tell the truth unvarnished and ungarnished, and only the eccentric will vote for you.—Frank Gray.

The very, blackness of the industrial situation in our country is a challenge to the Churches of Christ. —Rev Henry Carter, in the “Christian World.”

The greatest thing on earth- literally the greatest—is not wealth, or position, or fame, but character.—Dr. Frank Ballard.

Books are judged even as men are judged, now or hereafter.—Hon. R. Erskine, of Marr.

The more fruit a nation eats the less medicine it needs.—“ Daily Express.”

When we are normal we eat our food, but when we are receiving the attention of the doctor we partake of our nourishment —Mr Stanley C. Glassey in the “Yorkshire Observer.”

You cannot make trousers pretty without making them either absurd or a nuisance.—The “Western Evening Herald.’ 5