What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20503, 22 August 1936, Page 12

What they Say:

Readers are invited to contribute to this column, sayings of notable people of any age, that have Impressed them:

Marry in haste—repent at leisure.— Old Proverb.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. —3rd Pt. of Henry VI.

Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry.—Old Proverb. Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house. —Ecclesiasticus.

A man is, in general, better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife speaks Greek. —Johnson.

A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; ... as the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of h er house.—Ecclesiasticus.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. — Milton.

Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labour, or erring habits of Jfc. —Ruskin.

There are two classes of precious things in the world: those that God gives us for nothing—sun, air, and life (both mortal and immortal); and the secondary precious things which He gives us for a price. . . . Do we want to be strong?— We must work. To be hungry?—We must starve. To be happy?—We must be kind. To be wise?—We must look and think. — Ruskin.

Books of travels will be good in proportion to what a man has previously in his mind; his knowledge what to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish proverb says. ‘He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.’ So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.— Johnston.