Notable Quotes

ALL it is is a temporary change. If he doesn’t perform or things goes wrong it will wang [sic] back on his head. – Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, explaining his decision to remove the shower from Zuma’s head in his cartoons.

I THINK either a blue one or a white one would be nice. – Catherine Masters (109) suggesting to Prince William that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, should wear something other than yellow in her picture in the royal birthday card she sendsMANY people got bruised, many careers got destroyed in this whole saga. It’s been rough for some of us personally. People have been accused of many things. – SACP secretary-general Blade Nzimande on Zuma’s road to the Union Buildings.I WANT to show that I embrace African culture by dipping my spear in the blood of my enemy. – Columnist David Bullard, who intends taking the Sunday Times to court for unfair dismissal, quoted in the Saturday Star.THERE were hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.’ — Charles ‘Chalkie’ Stobbart, 60, after beating a 70-year-old aviation record by flying to London from Cape Town and back in three days, 15 hours and 17 minutes in a home built plane, quoted in The Star.WHEN the shocked community members asked him what he was doing, he said that the sheep troubled him during the night. – Police spokesman Constable Tebogo Sesing on a Tembisa, Gauteng man arrested for allegedly having sex with a sheep.THE facilities have deteriorated since then. The floors are so dirty and sticky, every time you lift your bare feet you feel this gooey stuff sticking to them. I am going to wash my feet before I go into my house for a bath. – Zimbabwe Independent editor Vincent Kahiya after spending a night in jail for publishing the names of state security agents involved in the abduction of opposition activists.THERE are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton (1862-1937) novelistI BELIEVE in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959), architect BEFORE you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticise them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes. – American comic writer, comedian and actor Jack Handey (b.1949)Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.- African proverb From the history booksHOPE is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886), American poet died on May 15 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 yearsI HAVE seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. – Marie Antoinette married future King Louis XVI of France on May 16 1770AMERICANS are the great Satan, the wounded snake. – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran, was born on May 17 1900.