What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20722, 8 May 1937, Page 12 (Supplement)

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to thia column, sayings of notable people of any age, that have Impressed them: "That is not a commonwealth where one man lords it with despotic sway." —Sophocles. Verse me with incessant affirmation. Don’t bark against the bad, but chant the beauties of the good.’’—Emerson. "This Age will serve to make a very pretty Farce for the next, if it have any Wit at all to make Use of it."— Samuel Butler. "We should try to succeed by merit, not by favour. He who acquits himself well will always have enough of patrons.”—Plautus. "Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh." —Sir Thomas Browne. "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday." —Swift. "Remember that if the opportunities lor great deeds should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."— F. W. Faber. • • • • The best laid schemes o' mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley, An’ lea’e us nough but grief an’ pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' met The present only toucheth thee: But, oohl I backward cast me e'e On prospects drear! An’ forward, tho’ I canna see, I guess and fear! • —Burns —"To a Field Mouse."