Noteable Quotes

I BELIEVE this child was sent to us for a reason. – Windhoek resident Deklan Gowases who found a newborn baby girl abandoned near a dumpster in Khomasdal

IF you visit someone, don’t exchange kisses… Let’s stop the social kissing habit. – Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh explaining measures to tackle the potential spread of swine flu. Greeting each other with three kisses to the cheek is a Lebanese national customPOLITICS is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx (1890 – 1977), was a Jewish American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.WE argue a lot, but he knows what he’s doing. – Namibia’s female bodybuilder Alethea Borman describing her brother Joodt Opperman who works out her bodybuilding routine for herOF life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand. – Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931), mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist CONSIDERATION for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. – Confucius (551-479 BC), China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theoristI HAVE heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the early 19th centuryI CAN make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), America’s 16th president, who brought about the emancipation of the slavesFrom the history booksI PLAYED by the rules of politics as I found them. – United States President Richard Nixon. On April 30, 1973, Nixon made a televised statement on Watergate, accepting responsibility for the bugging that took place at the Washington apartment complex in 1972.WE all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. – Spanish artist Pablo Picasso produced the first sketch of his masterpiece ‘Guernica’ on May 1, 1937, five days after the Basque town had been bombed by the Germans in the Spanish Civil WarEDUCATION is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela is victorious in South Africa’s first ever multi-racial election on May 2 1994IF society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German poet and dramatist. On May 3, 2002, foreign ministers and representatives of 36 of the Council of Europe’s 44 member states signed a document pledging the total abolition of the death penalty, even in times of warTHE cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg. – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. On May 4, 1979, Thatcher became Britain’s first woman prime minister after her Conservative party won a majority of 43 seats in the House of Commons in the previous day’s election