What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 12

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to this column, sayings of notable people of any age. that have Impressed them. “Men must decide on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigour in what they ought to do.” —Mencius. “Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils, but present evils triumph .over philosophy.”—Rochefoucauld. “The very might of human intelligence reveals ..its ..limits. — Madame Swetchine. “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.”—Beaconsfield. “He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.”—Socrates. “Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which coachman may be said to folloio the horses he is driving.”— Whately. “It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for ive never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.”—Herodotus. “Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they ivere ! before.”—Shakespeare. “The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticised.” —Longfellow. * # * * “Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.”—Matthew Arnold. “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”—Johnson. “Custom is the best interpreter of laws.”—Law Maxim.