TOPICAL SAYINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 201, 18 August 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

TOPICAL SAYINGS.

GREAT THOUGHTSIX FEW WORDS. Nothing matters except winning the war.—Mr. Bonar Law. * * * Life under the German flag would he life in a coffin. —General Botha. * * * We are coming out of the war like refined gold.—Yord Mayor of Loudon. * * » The language of love : s the most conventional in the world.—Miss Ellen Terry. Ireland must maintain the Irish regi nients until victory has been won.— Mr. John Redmond., M.P. * * * You are not a patriot unless you do things for your country yourself. - From Board of Education Pamphlet * * » If I were a hotting man, which, of course, 1 am not, I would give two to one on peace before Christmas.—Dean Ingj. * * * Be prepared to find coming out of the war a, diferent world which went into the war.—Mr. E. G. Montagu. * * * As king as motors arc on the streets cigars are smokes, and glows are worn, I do not see the need for economy.— Mr. Bruce (.L-C.C.) * * # This war is going to he a great leveller. Money must no longer be the criterion of power. Wealth must no longer lie the proof of superiority.—Mr. Walter Long. * * * Let us punish, if we can. those, who are guilty of murder, but do not let us d sgracc ourselves by asking our brave airmen to sla.ghter babies.—Bishop ot Lichfield. * * * There will be no poverty in the world a bundled years hence. . . . Poverty was I'm- a world that used only its bands: now that men have begun to use their brains, poverty is decreasing. —Thomas Edison