Notable Quotes

SHIPPING rhinos across the world is not cheap. They don’t fit in economy seats. I had to fly them business class. – Alastair Lucas, the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs in Australia, who helped finance moving four of the world’s last eight northern white rhino back to Kenya after spending nearly 24 years in a Czech zoo

IF you need direct help, you can include me in the team. – Former Russian president Vladimir Putin telling his national team’s judo trainer who won gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics THEY seem to appeal to an enormously widespread spectrum of people looking for that ‘must-have’ gift for Christmas. – Vanessa Lloyd Platt, founder of a London law firm which is offering Christmas gift vouchers for divorce advice GRATITUDE is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalistBLOODY Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up. – Wendy Cope (born 1945) is an award-winning contemporary English poet From the history booksTHERE’S man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. – Samuel Beckett, the reclusive Irish writer whose works shaped contemporary theatre. He died on December 22, 1989

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