Remarks Wise and Otherwise

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 28

Remarks Wise and Otherwise

Suicide is usually the result egoism, which exaggerates a man’s own troubles in comparhfH with the troubles of others.— Mr. Robert Lynd. A woman can overlook any conduct on the part of her husband if he never intimates that her new hat cost too much. — Clarence Budington Kelland. There is no foundation for the theory that, if a man can write good English, his domestic affairs must, therefore, bo of importance to the public.— Lord Hewart. Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north 'by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. — Mr. Philip Guedalla.

The humblest worker, equally zOith the youth who proposes to enter the professions, has a right to the sort of training he needs to earn his'livelihood. — President Hoover.

The old days of the right of every man to do as he likes with his own are a relic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and won’t zvork in the twentieth.— Sir William Joynson Hicks.