What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20896, 27 November 1937, Page 12

What they Say:

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

"If the end is well, all is well."— Gesta Romanorum.

"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been, it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.’’— Carlyle.

"There are two freedoms —the false where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought."—Charles Kingsley. “Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all travelling to one destination—happiness; but few are going by the same road.”—Colton. “Opportunity has hair in‘front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.”—Seneca.

"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins, and guiding them.’’—Hare.

"Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exultation of it; the difference is, therefore, in the degree, not nature."—Bulwer Lytton.

"Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust." —Dr Johnson.

"The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them.”—Montaigne.

"Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are."—Thomas a Kempis. "Science not only provides means for ameliorating the lot of mankind, but it also provides means for ensuring its more swift and thorough destruction. With one hand it gives us pure milk, and with the other high explosives."— J. W. N. Sullivan.

"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high ?r how large it was;it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons' graves is speechless, too; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing."—Donne. Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have. And pays us but with earth and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, 1 trust. —Sir Walter Raleigh.