Noteable Quotes

WHO do you think you are? Are you not aware that I am Julius, the president of the Youth League? I know that some of you hate me. – ANCYL president Julius Malema’s alleged comments to traffic police when pulled over for speeding in Limpopo, quoted in City Press

YOU must never again call me for a comment. I do not want your ugly voice on my cellphone any more. – Malema to a City Press reporter when asked about the matterAS fate would have it, and unbeknown to me, the girl I was with filmed the incident. – Former Springbok rugby player Joost van der Westhuizen admitting he was the man taking drugs in a video with a stripperIT seems that the mud is rising. I have no desire to subject my family, myself or my calling to serve our people to these sorts of indignities and destructive politicking. – Allan Boesak announcing his resignation from CopeIT appears he had an insatiable appetite he needed to fill. – Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath after 10 bodies were found at the home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell[T]HERE are too many black women in this institution… and I will go as far as the Northern Cape and Limpopo to get boere to come and work here. – Shahid Esau, Speaker of the Western Cape parliament, to the local legislature.EVERY time Eskom opens its mouth, people’s interests in solar energy are rejuvenated. – Glen Macdonald, owner of Sunpower, in Johannesburg.WITH this speech state-supported AIDS denialism has been banished. – The Treatment Action Campaign responding to a speech by President Jacob Zuma in the National Council of ProvincesIF I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. – Bertrand Russell ( 1872 – 1970), was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social criticIT was a woman who drove me to drink and I never got the chance to thank her. – WC Fields (1880 – 1946) was an American comedian, actor and juggler.PROMISES are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. – German proverbFrom the history booksWHOSOEVER shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving? – US comedian Woody Allen. On November 6, 1928, the US-born inventor Jacob Schick secured a patent for his ‘shaving implement’, the first commercially successful electric razorTHE women of Ireland, instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. – Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first woman president, elected on November 7, 1990I BELIEVE there would be people alive today if there were a death penalty. – Nancy Reagan (1981-89), wife of Ronald Reagan, 40th US president. On November 8, 1965 The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 was given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty for murder in the United Kingdom.