Noteable Quotes

 

IT’S as much an abuse as beating your wife. – Retired South African Constitutional Court Judge Johann Kriegler on judges failing to deliver judgements in good time in a speech he made in Windhoek recently

WE could not only smell it, but we heard it and it was quite funny. – Fire captain Peter Harkins after a flatulent pig sparked a gas emergency in southern Australia, when a farmer mistook its odours for a leaking pipe. Fifteen firefighters and two trucks responded to the call out

WE may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. – Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu (spiritual leader born1931)

DON’T be in a hurry to swallow when chewing is pleasant. – Malawian proverb

 DIFFICULTIES strengthen the mind, as labour does the body. – Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature
 
From the history books
GIVING every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. – Henry L Mencken (1880 – 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections on November 30, 1919

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