Noteable Quotes

ALL leaders must now engage themselves in campaigning countrywide to educate our people on the need for non-violence in life. – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at a weekend meeting aimed at reconciling the country’s political parties

I WISH it was me. – Jermaine Jackson, on hearing that his brother Michael had diedAN unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. – Bonnie Friedman (b. 1958), US author A PATRIOT must always be ready to defend his country against its government. – Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policiesTHE most important political office is that of private citizen. – Louis Brandeis (1856 – 1941), was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939THINK about all the things you can stick this tasty, extraordinarily large sausage in. – A saucy radio advert for sausages which was criticised by Britain’s advertising watchdog last weekFrom the history booksTHANK goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. – Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943), English author and illustrator of children’s books (including the Peter Rabbit series). She was born on July 28 1866