Things That Have Been Said

Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7472, 24 May 1934, Page 2

Things That Have Been Said

A nation which loses the stimulus to work rots. —Mr. Walter Elliot. Fish aro like women —uncertain, coy and hard to please. —Lieut.-Col. T. C. I\loorc i M.P. Oxford undergraduates are to-day probably more alive to their responsibiltics than they have ever been. —Sir Anthony Jcnkinson, Bt. ‘‘lt is characteristic of a woman to find fault with every photograph of herself,” says a photographer. It’s just like her to say it isn’t like her. Owing to -the present low prices, a lot of men are said to be buying uoxt year’s suits now. Wo are wearing ours! A correspondent toll's us that, ho has scarcely touched a golf ball sinco Christmas. Wo have been rather off our game, too, but not quito so badly as that. At a political, meeting in a town in Scotland the speaker was pelted with stale buns. More Highland flings. "The customer who pays promptly is always much sought after,” states a business man. So is the one who does his best to avoid paying at all. When a fire occurred in a provincial cinema a member of the audience leaped on to the stnge and started singing. The building was cleared in a remarkably short space of time. A Mexican recently died at the age of 110. His great age is attributed to the fact that ho was born in 1524 and has never taken any interest in politics.