IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19932, 28 April 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

I have never solved a crossword puzzle iu my life.—Sir Chartres Biron. To-day you may drop an "h" but never a pun.—Lady Sybil Grant. A husband has no right to say that his wife must obey him.—Mr. Justico Hill. Though Queen Anno is dead her architecture seems to live on for ever.—Mr. C. H. B. Qucnnel). Tho only test for practical ability is life itself, and no examiner can use that test.—Mr. F. F. Roxburgh. The good salesman must have tho conviction of a Crusader, the tact of a diplomat and tho tenacity of a bulldog.—Sir Willian Larke, Women are invariably patient, courageous, and persistent, and they make much better business interviewers than men.—Miss Edith Beesley. We are outliving the unthinking, uudiscriminating adoration of the classics which was ono of the characteristics of English feeling when I was young.Sir H. Hadow. Nearly everything a boy learns at school ho will forget unless his daily life keeps any of it in practice; but tho spirit which moved him will live.—Dr. W. H. D. House. Tho difficult business in a man's secret life is to maintain the balance between the idealism of an artistic creation and the realism of the daily world.—Mr. Arnold Bennett.