AN ALPHABET OF PITHY POINTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7330, 7 June 1913, Page 8

AN ALPHABET OF PITHY POINTS.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF A CYNIC. A man may have an excellent palate and yet a bad taste. BE beautiful if you aro a woman and you hold all tho honours in your hand. A plain woman has to make good by tricks. CYNICISM is often the philosophy born of failure. DON’T get a reputation by losing one. EVERYTHING depends on contrast. But for the good, the wicked would often not bo so narticularly interesting. I7ILIRTATION consists of attentions without intentions. (NO slow with thoughts of the future. J No one begins to think of tho future until he is too old to have any. HALVE sorrow by sharing it; double pleasure by the same means. TF you want a thing done well do it yourself” is a brazen egostistical fallacy. Ask the average man who owns a m*tor-car—and a chauffeur. JUDGING by the married lives of one’s women friends, it would seem that good husband’s look rotten, and good-looking husbands are, KNOW that personality is the special unique combination of bad habits belonging to one individual. LET us remember that occupation is tho thief of time. MAN— -a biped with prejudices which ho calls principles. NOWADAYS if a man is described as able, it means that he is able to make money. ONE has to have confidence before he can give it to anyone else, naturally. PIETY and coquetry in a woman aro merely different ways of gaining admiration. QUITE a little goes a long way—when it is scandalous. REMORSE is only another name for revulsion. SCANDAL is in some cases tho entrance to, and in some cases tho exit from, the social stage. THE next best, thing to a venerable name is a pronounceable one. USUALLY wo think we hate flattery, but generally it is only the form of flattery that one dislikes —its spirit is dear. yERY often love dies of over-foed-ing, but never of starvation. WOMEN aro not as a rule independent by nature; they can’t even keep a secret alone. XAVIER. —“To bo popular, demean yourself. Allow other people the infinite pleasure of being superior. YORK. —“ The worst of it is. one would have to grovel to attain superiority in some company.” —“Oh, cut it out.”