MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 48, 15 February 1908, Page 3

MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

Many a smile maketh a flirt.—sSlizner. All is not bold that titters—Mumford. Nothing can need a Herbert. Every false idea is dangerous—Anatole France. A fool and his words are soon parted.—Shenstone. True liberty is to have absolute power over self.—Montaigne. We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuables-Emerson. The object of education is. not to make machines, but persons.—Paul June*. A jest that makes a. virtuous woman only smile often frightens away a nrude. —Latena. Worry, which is unbelieving labour, has slain its thousands.—F. W. Far<juhar. One always does willingly what o:ic likes; if you like the good you will Jo it.—Vinct.

True taste hires not the pale drudge, Luxury, to waste the scene it would adorn. —Shelley. H is easier to learn where a person is when one knows whence he comes.— F.uouard l'ailerou. A tactful lover is not born but made by long training in the arts of ship.—John Oliver Hobbes. What is really sad is not the fact tint we are old, but that we arc no longer young. —Alexandre Dumas. The lives of most arc ruled T>y the fatal error that the 'more one possesses the more one enjoys.—Paul Meredith. If you can see yourself you can mend yourself. 'Tis a good thing to get an outside opinion sometimes.—Eden Phi 11•f»s_ii so-called good people had the called bad people, the trampled out of existence.—Mrs. Craigio. Men commonly mean most when they say least.—Desmond Coke. What is wisdom but having a great deal to say and keeping silent?— Frankfort Moore. \ I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a i.\iampague teetotaller. I don't like beer, ■V:. U. Shaw. iW sheer conceit of himself and his opinWi against the whole world coinmuii'f\)iic the shy num.—E. F. Montresor. zoologists assure us that the seal is ''jiappy only in a storm. Aa much ■nay beVtllirmed of married couples.—o. L'unphie, 'What \t man really likes is to be a saiiit, with the reputation of being a bit of a devil. 'A woman likes to be a 1)1; of a devil with the reputation of being .. saint.—E. Nesbit. Fed Vnen tell no tales.—Grant. The a carer the band the dearer the seat.—M.'irk; Lane. A imm'.never know-, woman until he finds her out.—Frankfort Moore.

<Jr,yin' over epilt milk ain't no good; it only iuak\js it . . . skimniier.—G. B. Burgin. \ if a child ih a house is a well-spring of pleasure, tlVen a eliild on a boat is nothing less thaVi a waterspout.—Edc. ■Praise not a\woman for what she hath, but for what she haft not, and thy reward shall be exuding Wat.—Gelett .Burgess. \^ Better vote for' an .■oleien\devil that knows his own mind and ]iis\nvn business than for a iooiw jialriot'vwho has no mind and no business.—(.) Bernard Shaw.

[ if a man wishes' to cUwli quickly in England he lnust lie a sportsman, or he ' must cling to the skirts of a woman, and preferably the woman must, be a marchioness.—Lucas Uleeve. \ -. It matters not what line amian may be engaged in. He has a good ahance today" to lay up a competence iii, twenty vears- if he saves. \