BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 29 March 1911, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

In love and sausages only one thing is required—perfect confidence.—Unidentified. Only out of the dreams of to-day can come the realities of to-morrow.-—Han-nen Swaffer. Of all glad words of tongue or pen, The gladdest are these: “I’ll try again!” —D. McClymont. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.—G. Bernard Shaw. Fear is the secret of Propriety.—■ Miriam Bloch. Little ideas and big successes never go together.—Sullivan. Weak pity to the ill-deserving is cruelty to all the rest.—'Bernard Snell. ’Twould save us a vast many squabbles and cares If we’d trouble our heads with our own affairs. , —Eliza Cook. It is the privilege of every fool to teach other men their business.—“ Tati er.” Nobody heeds the experience of old age till he is there himself. —“ New York Press.”

Nothing is as good as it used to be. in bygone days. It never was, and never wi’l be.—“‘World.” Man’s psychology is such that we ean have no more untrustworthy guide than memory.—“ Daily Dispatch.” The virtue of punctuality is too often attributed to those who are in reality victims of the vice of prematurity. — “ Graphic.” Men have never believed in the superiority of woman, that she has in any way a nobler or greater being, for they have never imitated her in anything.— “ Pall Mall Gazette.” Of all the rights for which the working classes of this country have ever fought, there is one which stands out most prominently—the right to leisure.—“ Co-op-erative News.” Nobody can boast a record absolutely free from the little lapse. There comes at least one moment to all when through’ carelessness, error, the sport of circumstances, they perpetrate the awful thing. —“ Daily Chronicle.” There was a little girl Who had a little curl, Good look's and a figure seldom seen); A note she couldn’t sing. Still, they took the little thing And made her a comic opera queen. “Judge,” New York. Passion is the motive-power of life. —D. McClymont. No man really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.—Ruskin. There is no virtue in being good because you have to be.—G. Knowles. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news. —Shakespeare. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and all the rest.—G. Bernard Shaw.

When women whisper scandal and say, a little bird told them, it’s a safe bet It was a lyre bird.—K. Knowing. 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. —“Unidentified.” The girl looking for a proposal will find that men are very much like corks'. Some will pop, while others have to ba drawn out.—Walter Pulitzer.