Souiciror at Highgate: You admit that you hesitated over settling this debt?
Man: There was no hesitation about it, I just made up my mind not to pay it.
Police Officer (of woman motorist): When I told her I should report her for a summons, she said, "I don't suppose a couple of tears would do any good, would they?"
A man charged at Blackpool with being drunk and disorderly, said that it was because Paynter, the Lancashire and England batsman, had knocked the Australian bowling "rooten.
Sayings from Abroad "Mr. Raine Well, maybe I did jib at that,—Mr. Clifford Odets.
Boys should be educated in the art of eating—Mr, E, Bolton, 1n no l way I advise boys not to let their schoolwork interfere with their education—Prof. George Gordon, When an Australian orator declares his hope that the better side may win, he means Ausiralia.—Mr. C. B. F
I am quite sure Lindbergh would be much happier if he had flown only half-way across the Atlantic—Dr, Lin Yutang.
The essential thing to the London workingman is the.cinema round the corner,—Sir George Gillett.
The way to make a successful party is to ask all the wrong people and then mix them up—Miss Elsa Maxwell All the bonfires in Berlin, Rome, Vienna or Moscow are only vivid expressions of the justifiable fear all tyrannies have of ideas—Mr. W. C. B. Sayei Figures show that music interests one in every 5,000 in Manchester, and I think these figures can be accepted for the country as a whole.—Mr. R. J. Forbes.
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