Noteable Quotes

 

THE e-mail looked genuine and authentic. – A Keetmanshoop businessmen who responded to a message he thought was from his bank and transferred N$180 000 to another bank in a scam. The money was recovered

THIS is a disgraceful waste of public money. – Dianne Kohler-Barnard of South Africa’s Democratic Alliance criticising the N$149 million Cessna Citation Sovereign the police air wing bought for official duties

THE holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1897 – 1882),  the most popular American poet in the 19th century

A CHILD enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad. – American writer John Andrew Holmes

A POLITICIAN is known by the promises he keeps. – Unknown

From the history books
THE older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – US humorist H L Mencken. On November 19 2004, the oldest man in the world according to Guinness World Records, Fred Hale Sr, died less than two weeks shy of his 114th birthday.

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