GRAINS OF WISDOM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16261, 30 October 1920, Page 5

GRAINS OF WISDOM.

Without friendship life L no life. Men pass to greatness through the portals of humility. A, rich son-in-law is Inadequate protection for a man’s old age. Behaviour Is a mirror in which each one shows his image. National Injustice b the surest road to national downfall. Many a man who has nothing to do but mind his own business does not even do that. If there were hut one sort of temptation there would he fewer sinners. 1 Ono cannot touch jov cvhry day; one tnust take things as they aro. Gain comes m the effort to give rather than in the effort to get. !t is another’s fault if he be imgrateful, but it is mine if I do not giro. Many weak shoulders have carried heavy burdens. .Hichcs are blind, and they make tlK ' ao . who look upon them blind also. It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Happiness is a roadside flower* growtag on the highway of usefulness. ' Growth is better than permanence, permanent growth is better than all. Sometimes & man misleads people bv being perfectly honest with them. Every duty which is bidden to wait back™ Wlth S ° VeQ fresh duties at ita Of all charms that touch our souls too most moving is that of the mysteriYou can’t stand well with your them 3 y ° U pereist in sitt ing on They nqver fail who die in a great cause. The present lives within our lives; "no wins the future is he who strives. Many a man puts his money and his raitli in a speculation, and later on draws out his faith. Take care of the pennies—you may never get anything else. Ihe silliest woman can manage a clever man but it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. The self-centred man seldom has a wide radius of interest. If you would not he forgotten as soon ns you are dead, either write tilings worth reading or do something worth writing about. On the highway leading to success very few keep to the right. Ho who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because lie makes himself bad. When a man achieves a sense of humour he ceases to be a joke to others. Men serve the wealth which Miey seem to command. There is no slave so helpless as the greedy man whom gold makes greedier still. In selecting the leader of any crowd pick out the man who does the listening. ~A man cannot speak but ho judges himself. With his will, or against his '.viil ho draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Wit must grow like fingers; if it ho taken from others, His like plums stucK upon blackthorns; they ore for a while, but come to nothing. The woman who flirts because her husband is gay, probably would flirt anyhow. We,should do everything we can for others if only to dissipate the thought of what they omit to do for us. . Ago asks with timidity to be spared intolerable pain; youth, taking fortune by the heard, demands joy like a right. A few months in school teaches some children how little their parents know. Take care of your thoughts and your words and dmds Vill take care of themselves. The reason for the average lie springs from a desire to make the conversation interesting. Marriage isn’t a failure if the contracting parties have two heads, four hands, and one heart. The ascend of the ladder of fame may be difficult, out we never notice the splinters until wo begin to slide down again. living to a ripe old age is inadequate recompense if one must follow the rules laid down for those who wish to achieve the feat. A man will always agree with you when you tell him that he is overworked and needs a rest. The fact that a man can advertise for a wife and get one is no proof that advertising pays. If you wish to know all about a man, talk confidentially to the wife of ids partner in business. A youth always wants to marry a pretty girl because bis -parents want him to marry a sensible one. Faithfulness and constancy means something more than doing what is easiest and pleasantest to ourselves. He who knows how to laugh, when to laugh, and what to laugh at has achieved, a philosophy all his own. IV lien a man thinks seriously it is of what ho hopes to accomplish. •When a woman thinks seriously it is of her wrongs. •” r The term “horse sense” is a misnomer. A horse has no sense, and in the matter of intelligence is rated sixteenth among tlio animals. It doesn’t take a woman very lonw to discover that she drew a clink in the matrimonial lottery,. put to her dying day she believes that her husband drew a prize. When their love is true, people when married are lovers just the -ame as they were before their marriage. , M en struggle for something lor the inner man. Women rtruuglo for something for the outer woman. The trouble with marriage is not that it attaches you to one pe-son for life—but tligt it detaches you fiom all tho others. . The inguenity one displays hi inventing excuses for' not doing would do the work twice over. The most satisfactory dividends paid by lovo to friendship are nop m j remises but in unswerving loyalb;. * Tho more uncles, aunts an i grandparents there are the bigger the dispute when it conies to naming t]L first baby. b Age is a recommendation ip jf our tilings: old wood to burp, old v , mu to dank, old friends to must, and old books to read. Nothing hurts a woman’s vnnire lih e meeting her husband’s old ai\eathearts and discovering what an assortment of simple little nonentities she won against. He who has no wife lives without comfort, without help, without j, n and without blessing. J v ’ . The unwise man talks without thinking, the wise man thinks when talking, tho'wiser, man thinks and'’is silent. »