IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20554, 3 May 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

Invention is the mother of employment, —Mr. H. B. Butler.

I am one of the few men .left who love tho high hat.—Lord Greenwood. In life (ho only profitable teaching is tho teaching by oxample.—J. A. Froude. Tho public never knows what it wants until it has got it.—Mr St. John Ervino.

That which wo have not dared to risk is tho most surely lost of all.—Maoterlinclc.

Fortune comos to him who langhs, and no one loses by laughing.—A Japanese Proverb.

You cannot imagine what a melancholy thing it is to analyse a funny story.—Dr. S. Kimmins. - It is the bored type of women who is most dangerous to the causo of peace. —Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. Tho demands for encores come always from tho noisiest and least discerning in any audience.—Mr. Jas. Pilkingtou. Human experience has made it certain that there is no ; secure connqction between good looks and good character.— Tho Bishop of Durham. Is thcro any of us really Christian who does not realise that tho economic system that produces unemployment is not Christian ?—Mr. A. V. Alexander.

Man has ruled only for a fraction of a million years, and it rather seems that ho must still establish his claim to bo tho permanent governor of tho earth.—Sir James Jeans.

'llio only difference between a poet and myself is that a poet can really feel a thing when it has not happened. It has to happen to mo beforo I can feel it.—l'juf. 11. B. Charlton.