NOTABLE SAYINGS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 65

NOTABLE SAYINGS

Good enough is never good.—Agnes Frv. The Navy is tlie shield and the Army is the spear of a maritime Empire. —»ir John Oolomb. The people who have a chance are the people who make a chance for themselves. —Sarali Grand. , , Too much woman in a nation is ban for its growth, its morals, it national progress —Lillias Campbell Davidson. He has no r glit to ask people to buy his books who cannot tell them something they did not know before. —Gertrude Atherton.

Health is like any inheritance —you can spend the interest in work and play, but you mustn't break into the principal. G. 11. Lorimer. No one objects to youth having "a good time." Let us play by all means, but let us also work —play hard and work hard.—Joseph Hatton. Success in the sense of getting money, will net of itself bring happiness if the man has any idealism in his soul. —J. Sharper Knowlson. The woman is yet to be born who can take on her a man’s responsibilities and walk gracefully and happily under the weight of the n. —Helen Mathers. The man who prays for vengeance on his enemies receiver his answer, for his prayer is apt to turn into a boomerang and hurt himself. —Rev. R. J. Campbell. Taking into consideration size and cost, perhaps there is nothing in the world of the feminine gender that becomes passee so soon as a ship of war. —G.A.B. Dewar.

If a painter or writer did not believe in himself through all things, he would yield to tlie pressure put on him by Fate, and go to weighing out sugar or pounding drugs in a mortar. —Morley Roberts.

If evert’ municipality had a playhouse of its own—subsidised out of the rates — we might get admirable results. The people want amusement and recreation as much as they want food.—Rev. Canon Barker.

To fail to see the beautiful and the noble, as Avell as the horrible and the mean in life, is to see life not clear and not Avkole, but falsely’, partially, Avith eyes distorted by malice, or ignorance, or disease. —T. P. O’Connor.

Walking is the very best tonic that can be presented for exhausted brains, Aveakened muscles and Avorn-out nerves; it strengthens the digestive organs, drives the blood aAvay from the tired brain, and is one of the best remedies for nervousness. —J. Cuthbert Hadden. 1 do not think we shall ever have an adequate security for the peace of the Avorld until the same code of honour prevails in public as it does in private matters, and GoA r ernments are not ashamed to acknoAA’ledge frankly- Avhen they 7 are in the Avrong. —Lord Rosebery. There A\ 7 as a time, not so very long ago, Avhen a wedding gift Avas a real token of affection or esteem; boav, at any rate, in the rich and fashionable sets, it is merely a means of displaying the donor's ability to disregard expense, to be lavish, to be extravagant. —John A. Stewart.

It would ba well for the country if no on© were allowed to marry before attaining the age of twenty-one, and perhaps it would also be well if the conditions of life and labour were such that all who had attained that age were in a position to marry if they desired it. —Canon Horsley. Don't pick out. a man for a husband simply because you love him. The most important thing is whether he loves you. A woman who loves her husband better than he does her is the doormat on which he treads. If he loves her better than she does him, he looks up to her as a goddess, and spends his life trying to win her favour.—Dorothy Dix. The reason why novels are preferred to books of science or philosophy is because they are so much more important. A novel deals with a man's life. And a man's life is obviously more interesting than a man's theory. A man's life generally ends in death, which is a very romantic episode, whereas a man's theories generally end in nothing at all. —G. K. Chesterton.

The singer who preserves and cherishes tenderly the best thoughts arid the best impulses is the singer who is most near to the hearts of men and women. My first fame came to me through singing “Home, Sweet Home," "Coming Thro' the Rye," “The Last Rose of Samgier," and “Within a Mile." I have been raithful to them as the English-speaking world has been faithful.—Adelina Patti.