Quotes Library

September 19, 2025

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), African politician, prime minister of Zimbabwe, in Sunday Times, 26 February 1984, Jay p.267

Do you know why God gave cricket to the English? To teach them the meaning of eternity—the time that it takes for a typical cricket match.

Mr. Mugabe got over that plan pretty quickly.

October 8, 2025

10 months ago

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

January 12, 2025

2 years ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

July 26, 2025

1 year ago

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they’d be forced into some other line of business.

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