WIT AND WISDOM FROM NEW BOOKS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 178, 14 December 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

WIT AND WISDOM FROM NEW BOOKS

Moral superiority is a thing that the average woman can't tolerate.—"A Sheltered Woman," by Mrs. H. 11. Penrose. Happiness is most awfully becoming,— •'Maids' Money," by .Mrs. 11. Uiulency. A man never falls in love with the woman he studies, but with the woman who studies him. . . A woman seldom puts off till to-morrow what she can wear to-day. —"Woman. The Good and Bad in Her," by Celt. To a girl who is loved and who loves, nothing else matters. —"The Common Law," by R. W. Chambers. The most terrible of all instincts is that of sloth.—Robert Gray. The rirst cure in love is always the best.—La Rochefoucauld. Japanese art reflects the simple Jo 3' of existence. —Lafcadio Hearn. We should conceal our weakness before the strong. —Madame Ue Sevinge. Love to *■■ w»»uan is a necessity; to a man an accessory. —G. Ivy Saunders. Everybody is made about something.— "Enter Bridget," by Thomas Cobb. There isn't any giving up to love or any forgiving or giving either, its—just love. —Anon. The main concern of a nation should be for the productive classes. —Geo. W. E. Russell. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. —Oscar Wilde. Some people never accumulate money; they are always too busy working for it. .—Charles V. Rideal. It is only in the stress of line ideas and emotions that a man may be truly said to live.—Arnold Bennett. The fellow who. is always getting into a peck of trouble should resort to other measures. —Greenwood Lake. Art begins when a man wishes to immortalise the most vivid moment he has ever lived.—Arthur Symons. Of all line arts, music is that which nas most influence ou the passions, and which the legislator ought the most to encourage.—Napoleon. When a woman quotes her husband's mother, 'tis sure she must be in pressing need of support!—" The Winter Queen," by Marie Hay. If you want to lose your heart over a woman, or even lose your money, do it! But never lose ydur head.—"Felix Christie," by Peggy Webling. Women rarely feel really at home with each other until they have had a good long talk about chiffons." —"The Girl with the Blue Eye,".by Lady Troubridge.

Why is it that when-two women are to be found together they are always talking about someone, never about something?—" Christian Holbrook," by Margaret Hope. A good deal of misery might be prevented if married people just had the presence of mind to walk away at the right time.—"Dangerous Dorothy," by Curtis Yorke.

We can't all be as popular as the Daily Mail; or as accommodating as the Daily Telegraph, but we ough to try to please as many people as possible.—"The Cheerful Day," by Reginald Lucas. The poseur only understands other poseurs, and sees nothing but pose in the actions of others; whilst the simpleminded fails to understand the most flagrant pose.—Otto Weininger. There are two kinds of men in this world, the men that can do things and the men that can't—what things not particularly mattering, it's the can that matters.—"Success," by Una L. Silberrad. No woman can live on a mountain-top for more than ten minutes at a time, even with the man who loves her; she wants to go down to the valley to shop. —"A Lady of Spain,'" by G. B. Burgin. There are just three sorts of women, counting girls: Perfect dears, poor dears, and persons. Men, of course, are still easier to classify, because there are only two kinds of them—nice and horrid.— "The Guests of Hercules," by C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Men may found empires, lead armies, coin millions, may be poets, artists, statesmen, and yet in none of these capacities can they experience the fire and thrill, the ecstasy and poignancy, the ravage and triumph, the human fulfilment and joy that belong to the wooing and the winning of a beloved woman Anon. Lord and Lady Salisbury were once among the guests at Hewcll Grange. Lord Salisbury had come to speak at a public meeting | On the morning of the day, when the speech was to be delivered, seeing Lord Salisbury passing into the study, I said to him: "I suppose you are going to think over what you will say to-night?" "No," he said, in his. ironical way, "rather to think over what I must not say."—"Autobiography of Alfred Austin." Enjoy what you've got at the moment, and you'll find almost every moment brings something enjoyable The tongue is the most important feature in anyone. It is ready for all emergencies— cajoK coax, blarney, anything, everything! It is the only feature that improves, with keeping, and because it is something everyone could make use of, silly girls leave it alone and take a back seat because they haven't a Grecian profile—"The Multiplicities of Una," by -E. Douglas Hume. There is a universal tendency to carry crood movements too far, to attach to them undue importance, until at last they are so overdone that they become merely so many fads in the eye of the man in the street, whom they are designed to benefit.—"The Key to Perfect Health," by Arthur Hallam. A man may be indifferent to his world's opinion of him in matters of importance, but a casual contemptuous remark on his manner or person or character plants a sting that chafes the sufferer disproportionately.—"Esther,-' by Aggnes Jacomb.