Points to Ponder

LESSONS FOR LIFE

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. CONFUCIUS, CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, RD SEPTEMBER 1946

The fundamental reason that women do not achieve so greatly as men do is that women have no wives. Until such a time as science or economics correct this blunder of nature, we shall remain, I fear, the inferior sex.

PROF MARJORIE NICHOLSON, UNIVERSITY DEAN, RD SEPTEMBER 1946

Before you flare up at anyone’s faults, take time to count to ten – of your own.

SPRINGFIELD UNION & REPUBLICAN, RD SEPTEMBER 1946

Manual labour to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts, a contention which I have since proved on many occasions. To scrub a floor has alleviated many a broken heart and to wash and iron one’s clothes

brought order and clarity to many a perplexed and anxious mind.

MARY ELLEN CHASE, RD JUNE 1957

One of the most ridiculous statements ever made is that one picture is worth a thousand words. As an example, I give you not a thousand words but eleven words, and I ask you to put across their message in a picture: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”

RICHARD POWELL, RD AUGUST 1958

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

WILLIAM THACKERAY IN VANITY FAIR, RD JULY 1959