BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 21, 23 November 1910, Page 50

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

Good people are good without moneys with it they are better still. — “ Daily Mirror.” ' Any fashion, however hideous, wilt command admiration after a lapse of time.—“ Graphic.” Man needs protection against woman, for she trades on her weakness. An hysterically or wickedly inclined woman can make lots of trouble for a man.— “World.” There are people who never enjoy al holiday, and are never likely to enjoy one, and the worst of all is the family—of diverse types and tastes—which ins sists on going away en masse.—"Mac dame.” The novelist who confidently describes psychological processes of which he knows nothing is not. creating an artistic illusion, but telling lies; and for those who find him out his book han no more interest th in a detected lie.—" Times.” What is the most valuable asset a. boy can possess to enable him to make the best of life? A strong will, undoubtedly. Lacking this, the most brilliant intellect, the most spiritual nature, fails to achieve the highest of which it is capable.—“ Gentlewoman.”. What is art? That is one of the everlasting unsettled questions. Adam anil Eve had their first tiff about that in the Garden of Eden, and when the last trump shall sound it will, I have no doubt, interrupt a good many discussions on the same interesting topic.—“ Sunday Chronicle.” Those who trust us educate us. — George Eliot. Woman proposes. Cupid forecloses, Man just dozes!—Walter Pulitzer. The happiness of man lies in pursuing, not in possession.—Longfellow. It requires very little ability to find fault. That is’why there are so many critics. —O. W. Holmes. - In each life good begets more good;] evil, fresh evil. —Edwin Arnold. A prudent man is like a pin—his head prevents him from going too far.—Douglas Jerrold. It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is or for less than one is worth. —Goethe. The man who loses with a smile is more lovable than the man who wins with a chuckle. —Vincent Laurens. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must erase. —Colton. Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the! beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so i«s order to all things.—Southey. A man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.—Mark Twain. It is enough to make a woman turn pale when she. is betrayed—into telling her age —Walter Pulitzer. While man’s dull spirit toils in smoke and fire. Woman’s swift instinct threads the electric wire. —O. W. Holmes. Consummate happiness does not exist in this world —except in the paradise of fools. —D. McClyinont. - Who shuts his hand, hath lost his gold; Who opens it, hath it twice told. —George Herbert. Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence—Byron.