BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 19, 9 November 1910, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

' The man who combats himself -will b* happier than he who contends with others.—“ Confucius.” My kind of loyalty is loyalty to my, country; not to its institutions or its office-holders. l —Mark Twain. Pretty speeches make very sickly conversation. —G. Bernard Shaw. True marriage is presupposed, not created, by ceremony and legal forms.— “Hall Caine.” People never discover what a corrupt thing Society is until they can’t get into it.—Jean Milne. From oblivion we come, to oblivion we go; we know not whence or whither. —D. McClymont. Some people never recognise a man is a “bad egg” until he’s “broke.” —Hugh Leslie Dobree. In the conception of an idea no bounds are set; yet in its execution the limits are most grievous. The large conception dwindles to nothing in its execution. —• Edmund J. Sullivan. A man knows when he is not in love, and he knows when he is in love; but no man knows the precise moment which*, bridges these two blessed states of mind. —“Morning Leader.” Children have wept more tears since the beginning of time over the backwardness of their mothers than have the “mummies” over the forwardness of their children.—“ Madame.” The ironic man is not a comfortable companion, and, therefore, it is well that irony should be barred in private intercourse, and used only in public speeches or in public writings.—“ Star.” Woman always decline to believe—until they discover it from personal experience—that man can be too busy to flirt, or that any woman, except themselves, are too proper and particular to do so. —“Daily Dispatch.” • We have no wish to indulge in anything of the nature of boastfulness, but really we do not feel that we have any reason to put on sack-cloth and ashes. For a nation without ideas We have; done tolerably well.—“ Daily Graphic.” The Chinaman may possibly live without his pigtail, but we cannot imagine him a sentient, intelligent being if he proceeds to adopt the silk hat and put his womankind into the blinkers and fetters worn so cheerfully by ours.— “Evening Standard.” When women come to value their, beauty at its true worth, perhaps we shall have ballrooms open to the free air; for dancing, most healthy of exercises, should be a promoter, not a destroyer of beauty. But it will always have ill effects sooner or later so long as it is carried on in hot crowded rooms.— “Daily Mail.”