What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 12

What they Say:

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

"The beech is the artist among trees. At every stage of its career it gives a picture.”—John Trevena.

"Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm."—Emerson.

‘‘Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." —Dr Johnson.

"Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beautuous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health." —Dr Johnson.

“A man may drink and no be drunk A man may fight and no be slain; A man may kiss a bonny lass And aye be welcome back again." —Burns

"A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he ha', no idea.”—Bagehot. “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun. Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy ivorldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta’en thy ivages Golden lads and girls all must,

As chimney sweepers, come to dust." —Shakespeare—"Cymbeline."

"Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Lcve, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack’d anything." —George Herbert.