Noteable Quotes

 

WE achieved something people said would be impossible. – Ghana’s Under-20 soccer captain, Andre Ayew, after his team won the Under-20 World Cup in Cairo

THE MDC-T has disengaged from nothing. It’s sound and fury signifying nothing. The MDC-T president knows that. It’s a poor protest. – Spokesman for President Robert Mugabe, George Charamba, referring to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to boycott a Cabinet meeting last week

AUTHORITY without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612 – 1672) was an English-American writer, the first notable American poet, and the first woman to be published in Colonial America
LEGALLY, the question of whether the spiciness of the khebab sauce constituted ‘normal’ or grievous bodily harm must be addressed. – German police after a kebab salesman threw chili sauce into a customer’s eyes after a fight over a a paper napkin

IF you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. – Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.

ASHES fly back into the face of him who throws them. – African Proverb

From the history books
AS soon as a politician is accused (of crimes) he is convicted by public opinion. – Willy Claes. On October 20, 1995, Willy Claes quit as Nato secretary-general, brought down by a Belgian corruption scandal after a year in the job

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