"DEWARISMS.”

Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 36

"DEWARISMS.”

A COLLECTION OF EPIGRAMS

Pearson’s Magazine has been making a collection of Lord Dewar's epigrams. The following are a few: — Mamy a man sets out to leave footprints on the sands of time, and only succeeds in leaving finger-prints at Scotland Yard. When a man says his word is as good as his bond, get the bond. Some men electrify their audiences; others only gas them. Talk is cheap until it gets into love letters.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. Love is an ocean of emotion, entirely surrounded by expenses. The quickest way to learn the latest dance motions is to turn over a beehive in a ballroom.

The first intimation in the Bible of broadcasting was when Adam gave a spare part which developed into a loud-speaker. You cannot blame a girl who pays 30s for a pair of silk stockings showing 28s worth of them.

The clothes that make the woman are the clothes that break the men. Doctors must be in a dilemma to know where to vaccinate to-day to prevent the marks showing. We have great regard for old age when it is bottled.

The man to-day who dies behind a woman’s skirt is not a coward; he is a magician.

The ambitious project to establish a 12storied hotel in the centre of Auckland, involving a capital of £200,000, has collapsed owing to the failure of the promoters to secure capital from Australia when appealed to, when local subscriptions proved insufficient. The owners now propose to subdivide the site for sale.