Notable Quotes

THERE is nothing wrong that the president has done. There is nothing ‘shameful’ when two adults have a relationship. – ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu on the media and others’ comments on President Jacob Zuma’s love-child

NO man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American writer

UNDERNEATH the gallery seating, we found fragments of crab which could also have been more costly. – Museum of London archaeologist, Julian Bowsher, whose research at Shakespearean playhouses in London has found that Elizabethan theatre-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods, including oysters by the cartload, crab and other shellfish like mussels, whelks and periwinkle while enjoying the latest plays of the day

A BEAUTIFUL thing is never perfect. – Egyptian proverb

From the history books
NO printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves. – Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1907. On February 3, 1468 Johann Gutenberg, the German printer and inventor, died.  He is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing and later invented the mechanical printing press

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