The Washington times., 1919-01-05

For the Young, the Old.
The Writer, the Young Lady.
For Humans All Kinds.
New Year Quotations..
By Arthur BRISBANE.
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>mment on the days news, here
re quotations for people, young
snd old, not far along in the new
yer. A quotation is valuable be-
cause Of thought stirred up in
your mind.
A small pebble dropped IN a
lake makes big circles.
A small thought dropped in
your mind may do the same.
For tAs young mon tUith the idea
That voath psast haze its fling, scild
z eats mast Be soiCn, etc.:
BE Old when young, that you
may be young when old"
aAat saying is by Sir Charles
Whetherell, q clever English law
yer Of the early nineteenth CEN
swy. The young man who does
uot Immediately grasp the mean
ing Of the quotation would pay no
attention TO it, anyhow. Confu-
cius said, 1When ] have presented
enc corner Of subject to anyone,
and he cannot from it learn the
other three, ! do not repeat my
lesson
For al, old and young:
This from the same wise Chi
: sese: @Haye no depraved
oughts."
~ Even the most foolish gardener
pulls up weeds. win power, gar
dener OF the mind. can pull out
weeds that prevent thoughts worth
while. Thinking constantly about
money and gain Is the commonest
American -deprayed thought" It
has deprived this country of the
services Of able men and will
mean trouble in the end.
To the old that foolishly fear
death, s1hieh cannot BE- worse than
long sleep:
The world itself Is but large
prison, cut of which some are
daily led TO execution"
Sir Walter Raleigh said it, Just
before he was beheaded.
Read IN Plato's Republic" the
story of men in the cave watching
shadows on the wall, fearing to
lose those shadows, which seemed
TO them the only reality. You win
realize the foolishness Of clinging
to life.
For the yostsg popsan eontsns-
psatfsg nsdtripsony:
-It Is not position, but mind,
that I want"
Madame Roland. who found much
enjoyT1eat and lost her life in the
French revolution, said that to her
father when she refused 70 marry
young man of title without
brains.
For odd sooncn n.oayaisg xoutA
bat triU not come back:
The heart has mo Wrinkles"
That was written By Madame
S1e Sevigne, the worlds most bril-
= liant female letter writer. There
Is no face as beautiful as that Of a
dignifed woman in old age.
For the corporation gentlenan
Uhe toants sonsthissg 1egislGtion,
! peybaps) difficult of attainment:
p there not q pathway to II
wide enough for an ass laden with
gsIdP
Philiip. father Of Alexander, ask
ed siat question when told that a
city was impregnable.
An ass laden with gold" driven
70 the door of legislature, would
attract too much attention and be
caB~d trough STUFF" But a lobbyist
lads with smiles. q check book in
his pocket, can do now what the
gold-laden ass could do in Phil
bps day and buy any city
For the ambitious yotsng baaH:
Il have net succeeded Louis XIV,
bat Chariemagne.'
Napoleon said that, meaning that
meant to carry on the work Of
J. -egreat empire builder and build
:neater and higher.
With his own hands Napoleon
srowned himself King Of Italy put
ing ON the iron crown of Charlie
sIagne, containing inside Of the
cold and precious stones a thin
iron ring said to have been forged
srom q nail of the cross.
From Napoleon young men may
earn that It doesn't pay to go too
ar In the way of ambition.
apoleon Is the greatest failure
) well as the greatest success
barring Alexander) in history.
srring also the really great
Jaquerors of science, scores of
fhom eclipse them both.
For writers, ,-old and young, es-
peciaIly the old:
Read over your compositions
and whenever you meet with q
passage which you think partieu-
MY fine, strike il out"