IN PASSING

Shannon News, 2 March 1928, Page 1

IN PASSING

We can be too ladylike.—Mrs Stan* ley Baldwin. ’ I have never made a joke in my life. —Sir Edmund Gosse.

It is very easy to catch a husband, but it is very difficult to keep him happy.—Lady Lawrence. ' Excellent wives may make indifferent mothers.—Mrs E. D. Simon. Every woman knows the most diffl* 1 cult thing in a house is a man.—Lad| Astor. The only. time I went to college I delivered the milk.—Mr Will. Thorne, M.P. • Laughter is to the human being what sunshine is to the cabbage.— Lord Dewar. Sociability should be cultivated outside the church, not inside. —Rev. R. J. Campbell. I have never been bored in my life, and perhaps that is the secret- of vitality.—Mr Ivor Novello. Soon it will be a very ill-informed man who does not believe in ghosts.— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My parents gave me a great heritage: a strong constitution and the necessity to work.—Sir Alfred Yarrow. Most people expect a nice vicar, who preaches good sermons, two nicelooking curates, a good vicar's wife, and a warm comfortable church Vr a penny a week.—Rev. H. W. Blackburne.