dinsdag 28 september 2010

Filosofische dauwdruppels uit Cassell's Magazine 1908



It is easier for most folk to follow the band than to face the music.

The younger the man, th more he thinks he knows about women.


The girl who wants to make a name for herself can seldom make a loaf of bread.


When a woman announces that she has nothing further to say , she manages to say it at great lengths.


Many a politician has boasted that all the leaders of his party are at his back, only to discover that they are there to kick him.


Fortune with card are more easily told than made
.

A man is often a woman's toy, to be thrown aside when he is broke.


Fools are people who don't use our own particular brand of folly
.

We can forgive beauty for being only skin deep if the girl has money.


It occasionally happens that a man marries in haste and spends his wife's money at leisure.


Many a man who is the architect of his own fortune gets no further than the plans and specifications.


Scientists claim that women need more sleep than men. If we could only convince our wives of the truth of this, maybe they would't wait up for us.


Deze (semi-)filosofische dauwdruppels zijn afkomstig uit een nummer van
Cassell's Magazine, verschenen in de zomer van 1908 onder de titel Philosophic dew-drops.