BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 6, 10 August 1910, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. —G racian. All may do what has by man been done.—Coligny. 1 know’ of no genius but the genius of hard work.—Turner. Whoso quarrels with his destiny does not understand it.—Anon. Our womenfolk are copying their fashions from the demi-monde. As their skirts get tighter their morals get looser.—Meyer. The difference lietween going to bed and going to the theatre is that you dress for the theatre and you undress for bed. If you are wise, you sleep in both places.— Hannon Swafler. Worth makes the man; the want of it the fellow.—Whittier. An ounce of character is worth a pound of intellect.—Graf Douglas. Philosophy enables us to bear with resignation—the affliction of others.—C. E. Jerningham. Hardly a single great man has won distinction in the work his father intended for him. Rentoul. Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich—something for nothing.—G. Bernard Shaw. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.—Mark Twain. There is a general complaint just now that fiction and the drama are much too like life to be pleasant. —“Standard.” Some of the best plays ever written are based on ideas that have been used a hundred times over.—“ Englishwoman.” If a conference really enables us to

obtain a House of Ixirds that will let Liberal measures through, we have no objection.—“ Nation.” What does it matter ■whether the pen or the sword be the mightier, so long as most men can do very little with cither beyond tripping themselves up? — “Puck.” A sense of humour is really a luxury in which everyone cannot afford to indulge. It is the embroidery of existence rather than the rough fabric of which life is composed.—“ Gentlewoman.” The stage Irishman is a standing absurdity that has given actual offence in Ireland, the stage Frenchman is never met in Paris, and instances can be multiplied at pleasure.—“ Daily Graphic.” Is there in the world a more repugnant anomaly than the spectacle of modern woman transformed, at the beck of fashion, into a creature heedlessly destructive of bird life, and in practice as bloodthirsty as the most sanguinary beast of prey? —“Scl borne Magazine.” Mankind is, at heart, deplorably unscientific, and liken exciting uh trust-

worthy matter far better than accuracy. —“Morning Post.” The love of money is the root of all evil, but it looks as though that was the -sort of love that makes the world go round.—“ Los Angeles Express.” Many a woman struggles at the matrimonial counter, only to lind, when she gets it home, that what she thought was marked down was really marked up. —• “Judge.” We hear very little nowadays against the “fresh-air fiend,” chiefly, perhaps, because he or she has converted most of us. Nowadays we all want our windows open.—“ Daily Sketch.” Nobody cares a row of pins about the man or woman who has been goose enough to marry the wrong woman or man. It is a sad business, but the world is hungrily awaiting plays about matters of real importance, and founded upon realities.—“ Black and White.” When speakers say what they mean a sshortly as possible the day of the Parliament of the world will have come. —"Evening Standard.” Now is the opportunity of the girl with small, or at least pretty, feet, and, judging from the display that is made, such girls are few and far apart.—" Daily Sketch.” London and the other great cities reek with institutions for the benefit of cannibals, dipsomaniacs, and other quite useless persons; but there is not one for the resuee of charming women from ladies’ clubs.—" Sketch.” Wreekless railroads will come when reckless railroading goes.—" Cleveland Plain Dealer.” Man has invented a “muddler” to take the bubles out of wine. Now for an invention that will take the “muddling” qualities from it and leave the bubbles.—■ “New York Herald.” Any fashion, however hideous, will command admiration after a lapse of time. —“Graphic.”