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.

June 18, 2025

1 year ago

It is no inglorious thing to have fear for the safety of our country, but to be turned from one’s course by men’s opinion

June 11, 2025

1 year ago

The preservation of the means of knowledge (let me repeat that: the means of knowledge

January 21, 2025

2 years ago

The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

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