NEW BOOK EPIGRAMS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2661, 26 May 1908, Page 7

NEW BOOK EPIGRAMS.

People are horribly vulgar when one sees them in- their natural .state. A committee meeting is a very natural state—it is raw human nature undisguised.

After hard times one ought to look well 011 prosperity. One s odd acquaintances sometimes come upon one like ghosts—and most people dislike ghosts. » It takes some grit to be a practical philosopher in the form of a stuffy 'bus at ten o'clock at night. Even the precept of suffering l'ools glacifly" does not go so far as to include advising them. The weakest point in " catty " women's attacks is the fact that they never give decent credit for being able to see through their meanest motives.

Men are only children playing at life. They-usually learn its meaning when they are dying of old age. Am I superstitious ? .... Oh well, when I hear the postman's knock, something mysterious and occult tells nie that I shall get a bill. And when my heart beats very fast indeed, 1 know I am going to meet a pretty woman. Sarcasm is the last straw of a defeated wit.

Manners died with George tho Fourth. Yes, and morals came into fashion*.

Very few men care to have the obvious pointed out to them by a woman.

I do so hope the Recording Angel realises how unpleasant it is to be good. The rude and ignorant are more powerfully impressed by a masterM demeanour than by the most extraordinary merits. When we are in trouble it sometimes occurs that humble persons can render us services which are not in the power of the great. Tho higher we climb on the mountain peaks of fame, the greater are the risks of falling. If a woman can persuade a man that she loves him she can do almost anything with him. ,\Ve cannot bear to hear other people talk of their virtues, because it reminds us of our own vices.

"STRAY THOUGHTS"—W. BURTON BALDRY.

Virtues are all very well .so long as they are hidden from the world : but as soon as they become exposed they lose all their freshness, and become merely habits.

A woman will always tell the truth until her questioner lapses into personalities. .Jealousy is nothing more or less than admitting that someone else is superior to us. Circumstance plays a far greater part in a woman's life than in a man's. For a man will make his own destiny.

She had nagged him almost beyond the point of endurance. "Men always were fools," she thundered at him. "Yes," he replied, quietly, "I know. But I wish to Heaven that Adam hadn't been fool enough to part with one of his ribs."

Liberality of mind to greatness is like a good suit of clothes to a handsome man. It does not make for improvement, but it sets it off.

If the world could see the motive behind many so-called philanthropic actions it would be more chary in its praise.

A man will do more to make people think him wise than he will to gain the wisdom he requires.

He is a wise man who discovers a woman's faults and then praises her for her lack of them.

Virtues are merely bad traits in our characters, which have not been discovered by the world. Ignorance is the mother of imprudence.

We can't help our relatives, but we can at least be careful in our choice of friends.—Quoted in " London Opinion."