Life and Literature Part 138

Time pa.s.ses like the wind.

--_Portuguese._

1922

Spare moments are the gold dust of time.

1923

Time unveils truth.

--_Portuguese._

1924

ONE WAY OF ACQUIRING A t.i.tLE.

"From time immemorial," said Judge Asher Carruth, of London, "Southern people have been lavish in bestowing t.i.tles. I think there is something in the Southern temperament which explains this. I didn't start out on this, however, for a philosophical disquisition, but rather to tell how a certain Kentucky gentleman established valid t.i.tle to the rank of Colonel. He went to Cincinnati once with a friend, who enjoyed many acquaintances there; and who introduced him to every one as Colonel Brown. Everything went along smoothly until finally one Cincinnatian asked of the introducer:

"I suppose your friend Colonel Brown was in the Confederate army?"

"No, sir; he was not."

"Well, then, he fought on the Union side?"

"You are wrong there, too."

"Oh, I see now; he got his t.i.tle by serving in the State militia?"

"No, he never entered the militia."

"Then, how did he get to be a colonel?"

"He drew a sword, sir, at a church fair!"

1925

_Tobacco-takers._--Dr. Caldwell says that there are but three animals that can abide tobacco, namely:--The African rock goat--the most loathsome creature on earth, The foul tobacco worm, And the rational creature, man!

1926

Talk less about the years to come-- Live, love and labor more to-day.

--_Alice Carey._

1927

Better be preparing for tomorrow, than regretting yesterday.

1928

To-morrow is, ah, whose?

--_D. M. Mullock._

1929

What cannot be told, had better not be done.

1930

Never hold any one by the b.u.t.ton or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

--_Chesterfield._

1931

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

--_Alphonse Karr._

1932

If you will control the tongue, you will soon be able also to control the mind.

1933

_Tongue._--When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

1934

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.

1935