Noteable Quotes

THERE will be no favours and there are no friends. Those not put in government must not cry. – ANC president Jacob Zuma on jobs for friends.

I DID expect that we would receive a different reception. – Former ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama after being jeered by ANC members in the National Assembly. He resigned from the ruling party to join the Congress of the People (Cope)SHE [Zille], the racist little girl, must remember that Zuma is her boss… Helen Zille must report to Zuma about the Western Cape… the racist girl has not won… all of them must call president Zuma ‘president’. – ANCYL leader Julius MalemaWE didn’t want him to spend the rest of his life being an ornament. We do expect him to fetch a good price, he has become a celebrity overnight. And his whole wardrobe comes out of the Woolworths children’s section. He’s completely on trend.- Nando’s marketing manager Sylvester Chauke quoted in The Star on the fast food outlet’s plan to auction its Julius Malema puppet, the star of a recent TV advertTHIS bloody male came in like he was an invited guest and started helping himself to tarts and whatnot. I took out a pillow and tried to shoo him out. Then he went for me and stopped about three inches from my throat. My children and grandchildren were terrified and a pregnant lady nearly fainted. – Cape Town resident John Page on the baboon that gate-crashed his granddaughter’s christening party, quoted in The StarNO smoke, no drink, no smile. – A crew member onboard a Taiwanese fishing vessel speaking to Die Burger after a mutiny near Cape Town’s Table Bay harbourDON’T judge people who don’t look the same as you do. – A 46-year-old American woman, Connie Culp, who was the first person in the world to have a near-complete face transplant after being shot by her husbandSOME cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novelI DON’T know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – American actor, writer, producer, composer Bill Cosby (b. 1937)From the history booksLAUGHTER is America’s most important export. – Walt Disney (1901- 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. The first newspaper cartoon in America appeared on May 8 1754ONE life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. – Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431), a French peasant girl who saved the kingdom of France from English domination. On May 9 she, with her troops, defeated the besieging English at OrleansSTUDY history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – British Prime Winston Churchill who, on May 10, 1940, took over the position following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain