SAYINGS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 144, 14 March 1931, Page 20

SAYINGS IN BRIEF

The German who complains of the payment that he. has to make in reparations is , carrying only three-fifths of our tax burden.—Sir Robert Horne, M.P. At every stage the British Constitution has developed by making a new brick, placing a new step, removing some definite concrete obstacle.—Sir John Simon. The-.world hast never yet failed to return to religion after a period of scepticism and agnosticism.—Mr. G. K. Chesterton.

Cleverness is the lowest of good qualities.—Mr. Arnold Bennett. We talk about the importance of mental training, but we do not train children to think consecutively even for five minutes on end.—Mr. Robert Lynd.

Superstition is the Nemesis of materialism: the water stands at the same level in these two receptacles of error. —Dean Inge. Money hidden away in a. stocking may be “idle money,” but surely not bank deposits—Lord Mestom

I never yet knew a man who thoroughly believed in his own religion.— Mr. Clarence Darrow. Civil servants are wonderful men conscientious, loyal, disinterested —I should almost say they are too conscientious. —Sir Samuel Wilson. I canhot believe that if Burns had made “pots of money” and lent it out as interest, as Mr. William Shakespeare did, there would be a single gathering anywhere on January 25 or 26 toasting his memory.—Mr. J. A. Hammerton.