Noteable Quotes

HE has been very aggressive and antagonistic. – South Africa’s High Commissioner Eunice Komane commenting on the South African-resident Angolan businessman, Jose Joqim, who had been sleeping outside the High Commission in Windhoek after thieves reportedly stole his passport in Oshakati

FIRST and foremost, the president (Yoweri Museveni) already had a plane. The man was not walking. – Ugandan opposition lawmaker, Nandal Mafabi, commenting on the huge rise in government spending in their countryI HAVE tried to use moral persuasion. – SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni lashing out at commercial banks in South Africa because of the difference between the 12 per cent prime rate (at which customers borrow money from banks) and the 8,5 per cent repo rate (at which commercial banks borrow from the Reserve Bank)HAPPINESS is good health and a bad memory. – Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982) OLD age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it. – Golda Meir (1898 – 1978) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel.Golda Meir IT is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as the manufacturer intends. – SA Medical Association member Dr Trevor Terblanche on smoking.I WILL insist that only water is served so nobody can claim later to have forgotten. – SA Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni on meeting with banks to discuss the difference between repo and interest rates.ENOUGH is enough, Pityana must go. He is running Unisa like a spaza shop. – Young Communist League spokesman Castro Ngobese on University of South Africa vice chancellor Barney Pityana.IT is not a personal achievement, it is just a part of the job and I had a very good team of people helping me. – Australian doctor Rob Carson, who saved 13-year-old Nicholas Rossi’s life by making a hole in his skull with a household drill because the rural hospital was not fitted with a neurological drill. He had never before performed the procedure.THE problem with remuneration is like a septic wound, no-one can suture it immediately. – South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on the salaries of doctors and other health workers.From the history booksTHE greatest honour history can bestow is that of peacemaker. – Richard Nixon, US President. On May 22, 1972, Nixon became the first US president to visit Moscow.I HAVE no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. – John D. Rockefeller. The US multimillionaire and founder of the Standard Oil Company died on May 23, 1937ROAMING through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. – Duke Ellington, US jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, died on May 24, 1974THE photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. – Susan Sontag, the radical American writer and critic. On May 25, 2001, Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer, famed for his 1960 shot of Latin American guerrilla Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, died