Notable Quotes

WELL I lasted the first round – and now the Japanese will also be able to check their records, and know for sure who and where Namibia is. – Namibia’s Lightweight World Boxing Champion Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses after hearing in Japan that no one could find Namibia in their books and records
 
 THEY realised they can’t antagonise the workers in an election year.

WELL I lasted the first round – and now the Japanese will also be able to check their records, and know for sure who and where Namibia is. – Namibia’s Lightweight World Boxing Champion Paulus ‘The Hitman’ Moses after hearing in Japan that no one could find Namibia in their books and records

THEY realised they can’t antagonise the workers in an election year. – An observer commenting on the Government’s 24 to 28 per cent salary increase for civil servants over two years

WE are a free country and it is natural and right from time to time, that there will be conversations about such important symbols for our nation. – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after rejecting calls from an indigenous rights activist to move Australia Day, celebrated on January 26, to mark the arrival of white settlers in 1788

IF we act as citizens and not partisans and begin again the work of remaking America, then I have faith that we will emerge from this trying time even stronger and more prosperous than we were before. – US President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address last week

CHOOSE a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius

YOUNG men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot. – Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

From the history books
CRICKET civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. – Robert Gabriel Mugabe returned to Rhodesia, after a five year exile, in preparation for the first elections in a soon to be independent Zimbabwe on January 27 1980