Noteable Quotes

SOME people are saying it is a spy bill, so it needs public scrutiny. – Swapo MP Hafeni Ndemula on why the National Council is referring the Communications Bill to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence

IT is pretty clear that garden gnomes are silly and that they do silly things. – German artist Ottmar Hoerl on the golden garden gnome, making a Hitler salute, that is on display in a gallery in NuremburgFRIENDSHIP is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writerIT was a speech of tough love for Africa, on one side telling us what needs to be done to improve our conditions on the continent and on the other reminding us of our potentials. – Kenyan scholar and historian Ali Mazrui commenting on President Barack Obama’s speech during his recent visit to GhanaHE who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. – William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor YOU’LL never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Irish proverbFrom the history booksTHE trouble is, I picked on the wrong God. – US comedian Lenny Bruce, in a routine in 1962, a year of mounting legal troubles which he attributed to his social and religious satire. Bruce died from a drugs overdose on August 3 1966