SAYINGS OF THE DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 4

SAYINGS OF THE DAY.

Manv a single woman leads a double life. The only lore that never dies is a man's love for himself. Some people would take everything one had—except fits. Patriotism very often hns an accent on the pay.—Mr" Justice Horridge. No one is more tiresome than the man who insists on making public his private opinion. If a man once tells a woman be loves her he has got to keep on telling her for the rest of his life. Your face may be your misfortune, but a kid name" is your own fault in these days of naturalisation and letters patent. It is not clever to tell lies unless they are convincing, and it is not witty to 'tell .stories unla-s they are convulsing. Sometimes a girl thinks a young fellow is a man after her own heart, when he is only ai'er her dowry.— : ' Nashville Banner." Dinner parties that aim at be ; ? pbrilliant arc apt to achieve only brdliantine.—From " Maria Again," by Mrs John Lane. If a man even guessed what w?ro the real constituents of a p'quant dish and a piquant woman there would bo more chance for plain food and plain women. " Somebody's always talcing the joy out of life." Here's a chap who has gone and invented an umbrella that can be opened only by its owner.— ''' Philadelphia Inquirer."