A FEW EPIGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2431, 20 May 1922, Page 4

A FEW EPIGRAMS.

By all means express an opinion, but not by post. -If a husband leaves his wife alone ten to one someone else won’t. To bersuecessful in love one must know how to begin and when to stop. It is no ’good' laying down the law if you can’t take'up an argument. ;A man’s “for ever” is just about as long as a woman’s “five minutes.” Society says, if you have come into money you can come in anywhere. Almost anyone can be noticeable, but . only a very few are distinguished. A pretty,'woman in a becoming gown is a temptation—men love temptations. ' You are much nearer success when" you are deplored than when you are ignored. A •man 1 will forgive a woman doing every thing*’at his expense except making a joke. If'you give a woman an opportunity, she 1 will take everything else that she wants. The looking glass reveals us as we are to ourselves; the wine glass reveals us as we are to others. Men do \iot try to escape temptations; their only fear is that some temptation should escape them. Everyone likes to be run after, but the difference between men and women is that men do not want to be caught and women do. From “Tailings” by Sydney Tremaync. The Bodley Head Ltd., London.