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# Jeanne Calment

Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian who has the longest confirmed human lifespan on record, living to the age of 122 years and 164 days. She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life.

## Quotes

* I had to wait 110 years to become famous... I intend to enjoy it as long as possible.
** In: Craig R. Whitney, "In France, A Citizen Turns 120," The New York Times February 22, 1995.
* I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.
** In: Craig R. Whitney, "In France, A Citizen Turns 120," The New York Times February 22, 1995.
* I took pleasure when I could... I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
** in: Time, March 6, 1995, p. 85
* I wait for death... and journalists.
** Attributed in: Charlotte A. Spencer. Genes, Aging and Immortality. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. p. 6; In response to growing interest by media
* I have got only one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it.
** Attributed in: Charlotte A. Spencer. Genes, Aging and Immortality. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. p. 6

### Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years, 1998

Allard, Michel; Lebre, Victor; Robine, Jean-Marie; Calment, Jeanne (1998). Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years. New York: W.H. Freeman
* I had a hell of a lot of will power! A hell of a will power, you understand? And it was very useful to me.
** p. 29
* Every age has its happiness and troubles.
** p. 48: response to the question whether the birth of her daughter was the happiest time of her life
* I have a rather masculine nature. I'm not afraid of anything.
** p. 67

## External links

* Image gallery of Jeanne Calment from aged 20 to aged 122
* Jeanne Calment on IMDb
# Widow

A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died.

## Quotes

* She is concerned for the orphan and concerned for the widow. She does not forget the man who helps others, she is a mother for the orphan; Nance, a carer for the widow, who always finds advice for the debt-slave; the lady who gives protection for refugees. She seeks out a place for the weak. She swells his collecting basket for him; she makes his collecting vessel profitable for him. For the righteous maiden who has taken her path, Nance chooses a young man of means. Nance raises a secure house like a roof over the widow who could not remarry.
** Anonymous, A hymn to Nanshe, late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.
* WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
** Sir Henry Wotton, "Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife"

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Zain Verjee

Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is a Kenyan-born Canadian journalist based in Nairobi and the Los Angeles area. She is a former CNN anchor and correspondent.

## Quotes

** "A commitment to truth, tenacity and bold resolve in chasing the story is a must. Creativity and judgement is vital in crafting a narrative that is compelling, informative and educational. It is about shedding light, not about generating heat."
** "The media world today is shifting fast. It’s very dynamic. Traditional media is under siege. Audiences are going to digital."
* https://medium.com/@Zain_Verjee/my-graduation-speech-to-journalists-3fc0d764b820

## External links

* Site description
* Site description 2
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# Jewish proverbs

Jewish proverbs are short expressions of popular wisdom in Jewish culture.

## Quotes

* .נפלה האבן על הקדרה, אוי לקדרה. נפלה הקדרה על האבן, אוי לקדרה
** The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the stone? Woe to the pitcher.
** Esther Rabbah 7:10, quoted in Lewis Browne: The Wisdom of Israel, an Anthology
* בכל החזיתות שאנו מטילים על אחרים אנחנו מדגימים את הפוטנציאל שלנו, דרך הילדים שלנו אנחנו מגלים את המציאות שלנו. - לורנס קלמן, כדי ללבות עמ 'נשמה
** In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
** Lawrence Kelemen, To Kindle A Soul, p. 195
* When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.
** Quoted in Forbes Magazine vol.146 (1990), p.182 as a Yiddish proverb. (It was also used in Fiddler on the Roof.)
* If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it.
** Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them.
** Talmud Bavli, Berakoth, 5b

### Ethics of the Fathers

* Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh said: Be exceedingly humble in spirit, for the hope of earthly man is but decay.
** Avot, Pirkei (1979). "4". פרקי אבות. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-87306-182-7.
* Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; dust yourself in the soil of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words. -Yossei ben Yoezer
** Ethics Of The Fathers Text of Chapter One - Texts & Writings. Chabad.org. Retrieved on 2019-05-28.
* Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. -Shmaayah
** "Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."
** Woodrow Wilson (1972) The papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol 14. p. 244.
** Ethics Of The Fathers Text of Chapter One - Texts & Writings. Chabad.org. Retrieved on 2019-05-28.
* I am who I am.
* Who is wise? He who learns from all men -Ben Zoma
** Ethics Of The Fathers Avot, Pirkey (1979). "4". פרקי אבות. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-87306-182-7.
* על דאטפת אטפוך וסוף מטיפייך - יטופון (Mishnah Avot 2,7)
** 'Al d'ateft atfu'kh, v'sof m'tifaikh ytufun
** Translation: Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
** Meaning: Sins shall be punished, but people are not allowed to take the law into their own hands.
** שפירא (1998). ספר המאור שבתורה. ש.צ. בן ב. הכהן שפירא.

### "Ancient Jewish Proverbs", Abraham Cohen, 1980

* Youth is a crown of roses, old age a crown of willows.
** Youth is a light burden, old age a heavy one.
** Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 152a
* In old men there is no taste, in young no insight.
** The old lack enthusiasm, the young lack shrewdness.
** Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 89b
* I do not want a shoe larger than my foot.
** I do not want a husband of higher rank than my own.
** Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin, 49a

### "Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs", David C. Gross, 1997

* Don't boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day will bring.
* Whoever seeks cake loses his bread.
* Whoever argues for the sake of argument is a boor.
* Any home not built for hot days or rains is not a home.

## See also

* Judaism
* Proverbs
* Book of Proverbs
* Yiddish proverbs
# Elizabeth Mburu

Elizabeth W. Mburu (born 1968) is a Kenyan theologian who is a professor of New Testament and Greek at the International Leadership University, Africa International University and Pan Africa Christian University in Nairobi. Her book, African Hermeneutics, seeks to provide a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible.

## Quotes

* Interpretation of Scripture occurs within one’s worldview and culture, which enhances our understanding and ability to apply Scripture in the world. However, few books address Bible interpretation from an African perspective and no other textbook uses the intercultural approach found here. This book brings both an awareness of how one’s African context gives a lens to hermeneutics, but also how to interpret texts with integrity despite our cultural influences.
** African Hermeneutics
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# Phumzile Mgcina

Phumzile Sinclatia Mgcina (born 8 August 1990) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour since July 2024. She has been the deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League since July 2023. Mgcina is from Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal and began her career as a local councillor in Amajuba District Municipality. She was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the May 2024 general election.

## Quotes

* It's scary, but that is the nature of politics. The history of the organisation motivates us. I believe the ANC has a future and we must fight against the scourge of killings to advance democracy.
** She said
* The elected leadership must be protected. There are internal structures and the party's constitution that must be utilised rather than resorting to killings.
** She said
* We will not be intimidated by such incidents because it means there will be no leaders in future as those who kill will have it their way, which compromises democracy.
** She said
* The bullying issue and gangsterism are also our issues, I have worked with the provincial government to address and intervene in those cases,”
** She said
* Our municipalities have enough land for human settlement, however, without proper water and sanitation the government cannot build houses there. We understand that we can not do it all overnight but we have made progress in that regard.
** She said
* What we get from the community is that people want the land to farm and the relationship with farmers gets worse each day.
** She said
* All I do is according to the rules, that has helped me a lot to gain confidence and be able to command the council. We emphasise the importance of respect among each other and we advance democracy.
** She said
# George Rose (barrister)

Sir George Rose (1 May 1782 – 3 December 1873) was an English barrister and law reporter, a master in chancery.

## Quotes
### English Epigrams

    Reported in William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878])
* Samuel Warren, though able, yet vainest of men, Could he guide with discretion his tongue and his pen, His course would be clear for—"Ten Thousand a Year," But limited else to a brief—"Now and Then."
** On Samuel Warren, Author of Ten Thousand a Year, Now and Then, and other Novels"
* Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat From the lawyers or barges, odd-rot-'em? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom!
** "Reply to Smith"
** [First printed in Barham's Life of Hook (1849), in reply to the following epigram by James Smith, "On Craven Street, Strand":
    In Craven Street, Strand, ten attorneys find place, And ten dark coal-barges are moored at the base: Fly, Honesty, fly, to some safer retreat; There's craft in the river and craft in the street.]
* O thou who read'st what 's written here, Commiserate the lot severe, By which, compell'd, I write them. In vain Sophia I withstand, For Anna adds her dread command; I tremble—and indite them. Blame Eve, who, feeble to withstand One single devil, rais'd her hand, And gather'd our damnation; But do not me or Adam blame, Tempted by two, who did the same— His Wife—and her Relation.
** "Written in an Album"

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on George Rose (barrister) on Wikipedia
# Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1735)

Samuel Wesley (17 December 1662 – 25 April 1735) was a clergyman of the Church of England, a poet, and a writer. He was the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism.

## Quotes

* Beneath, a sleeping infant lies, To earth whose ashes lent, More glorious shall hereafter rise, Though not more innocent. When the arch-angel's trump shall blow, And souls and bodies join, What crowds will wish, their lives below Had been as short as thine!
** "Epitaph on an Infant", in James Montgomery (ed.) The Christian Poet; or, Selections in Verse, on Sacred Subjects, 3rd ed. (Glasgow, 1828), p. 429
* Let sickness blast, and death devour, If heaven must recompense our pains Perish the grass, and fade the flower, If firm the word of God remains.
** "Hymn 46", st. 6, in John Wesley (ed.) A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (London, 1830), p. 49

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1735) on Wikipedia
# Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1739)

Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet, schoolmaster and an Anglican cleric. He was the eldest of the Wesley brothers—with younger brothers John and Charles—but did not play a notable role in the nascent Methodist movement.

## Quotes

* Here lie I, once a witty fair, Ill-loving and ill-loved; Whose heedless beauty was my snare, Whose wit my folly proved. Reader, should any curious stay To ask my luckless name, Tell them the grave that hides my clay Conceals me from my shame. Tell them I mourned for guilt of sin More than for pleasure spent: Tell them, whate’er my morn had been, My noon was penitent.
** "An Epitaph", in Poems on Several Occasions (1736), p. 226

### English Epigrams

    Reported in William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878])
* From sunset to daybreak, when folks are asleep, New watchmen are 'pointed the 'chequer to keep; New locks and new bolts fasten every door, And the chests are made three times as strong as before. Yet the thieves, when 'tis open, the treasure may seize, For the same are still trusted with care of the keys. From the night to the morning, 'tis true, all is right; But who shall secure it from morning to night?
** "On the Exchequer and its Custodians"
** [The allusion is probably to the supposed illegal use made of the secret-service money by Sir Robert Walpole]
* Whilst Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give: See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,— He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'd a stone.
** On the Erection of a Statue to the Poet Butler in Westminster Abbey"
** [Printed in Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Hands (London: D. Lewis, 1726). The monument here referred to was erected in 1721, about forty years after the death of Butler]

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1739) on Wikipedia
# Robert Crawford (Scottish poet, died 1733)

Robert Crawford (1695–1733) was a Scottish poet.

## Quotes

* Come, let us go forth to the mead, Let us see how the primroses spring; We’ll lodge in some village on Tweed, And love while the feather’d folk sing.
** "Tweedside", st. 2, in Scottish Song, vol. 1 (London: printed for J. Johnson, ... and J. Egerton, 1714), pt. 1, p. 8
* When trees did bud and fields were green, And broom bloom’d fair to see, When Mary was complete fifteen, And love laugh’d in her ee, Blythe Davie’s blinks her heart did move To speak her mind thus free: Gang doun the burn, Davie love, An’ I will follow thee.
** "Doun the Burn, Davie", st. 1, in The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs, 2nd ed. (1854), p. 54
** A more English version printed in A Collection of Old Ballads, vol. 3 (London: printed for J. Roberts, 1725), p. 251

## External links

* Works related to Author:Robert Crawford on Wikisource
# Violet Mathye

Susani Violet Mathye is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2014. She was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 2014 general election, ranked 26th on the ANC's provincial party list.

## Quotes

* According to reports, the bus drove over a roundabout, the last traffic circle from Makhado toward Polokwane, at a high speed, lost control and overturned, killing and injuring its passengers in the process
* The bus driver is reportedly new in his job and not familiar with the surroundings. The scene has been cleared, and the injured passengers have been taken to various hospitals in Makhado
** Violet Mathye talks about the Limpopo bus crash
* We condemn this senseless and inhumane act in the strongest possible terms. In the same vein, there is a relief in that three suspects were arrested following this harrowing ordeal and are undergoing court proceedings. I am confident the evidence at our disposal will be sufficient to send these criminals in custody to face the full might of the law
** Violet Mathye condemns Mob justice
* Each time they are involved in road crashes, we see a high number of casualties. These crashes are usually caused by recklessness and general disobedience of road safety regulations
** Violet Mathye urges taxi drivers to wear their seatbelts properly
# Robert Crawford (Scottish poet)

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA (born 1959) is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is emeritus Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. He writes in both Scots and English.

## Quotes

* Ghetto-makars, tae the knackirs' Wi aw yir schemes, yir smug dour dreams O yir ain feet. Yi're beat By yon new Scoatlan loupin tae yir street...
** "Ghetto-Blastir", st. 1, in Sterts & Stobies (1985)
* Throw all your stagey chandeliers in wheel-barrows and move them north To celebrate my mother's sewing-machine And her beneath an eighty-watt bulb, pedalling Iambs on an antique metal footplate.
** "Opera", in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
* Semiconductor country, land crammed with intimate expanses, Your cities are superlattices, heterojunctive Graphed from the air, your cropmarked farmlands Are epitaxies of tweed.
** "Scotland", st. 1, in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
* Among circuitboard crowsteps To be miniaturised is not small-minded. To love you needs more details than the Book of Kells — Your harbours, your photography, your democratic intellect Still boundless, chip of a nation.
** "Scotland", st. 4, in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
* Thinking of Helensburgh, J. G. Frazer Revises flayings and human sacrifice; Abo of the Celtic Twilight, St Andrew Lang Posts him a ten-page note on totemism And a coloured fairy book.
** "Scotland in the 1890s", in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
* James Murray combs the dialect from his beard And files slips for his massive Dictionary.
** "Scotland in the 1890s", in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
* ... Listen — Not to dour centuries of trudging, Marching, and taking orders; Today I have heard the feet of my country Breaking into a run.
** "Radio Scottish Democracy", in Talkies (1992)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Robert Crawford (Scottish poet) on Wikipedia
# Nicholas Amhurst

Nicholas Amhurst (16 October 1697 – 27 April 1742) was an English poet and political writer.

## Quotes

* CLOE, dear JACK, that once victorious Name, CLOE, the Object of my raging Flame, Whom I did more than Life or Friendship prize, In Fleetstreet now a common strumpet plies, Turns up to ev’ry Puppy in the Town, And claps the Temple Rake for half a Crown.
** "Catullus Imitated", in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd ed. (1723), p. 35, adapting ep. 58
* CLOE, as soon as she has plaid the Whore, Repents the Deed, and vows to do’t no more; With the next Man she meets, to cure her Pain, She breaks her Vow, repents, and vows again; Breaks it again, so yielding is the Dame, And does the next Day and the next the same; Or keep thy Vows, frail Nymph, or vow no more, Cease to repent, or cease to play the Whore. Plain Fornication is a venial Evil, But Perjury leads headlong to the Devil.
** "On the Same"; ibid.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Nicholas Amhurst on Wikipedia
# Rebecca Elson

Rebecca Anne Wood Elson (2 January 1960 – 19 May 1999) was a Canadian–American astronomer and writer.

## Quotes

* Sometimes, I confess, Starlight seems too sharp, And like the moon I bend my face to the ground, To the small patch where each foot falls, Before it falls, And I forget to ask questions, And only count things.
** "We Astronomers", in A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet Press, 2001)
** Cp. Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1867)

## External links

* Iggy McGovern, "Strange Meeting: Science Meets Poetry", The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 108 (2012), p. 57
# Miroslav Holub

Miroslav Holub (13 September 1923 – 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.

## Quotes

* Writers use the same tools (i.e. words) as scientists. They perform on the same stage, but move in the opposite direction. The sciences and poetries do not share words, they polarise them.
* Sciences .. are based on a single logical meaning of the sentence or of the word. ... On the contrary, poetry tries for as many possible meanings and interactions between words and thoughts as it can.
* The experience of the little discovery is the same when looking into the microscope and when looking at the nascent organism of the poem. It is one of the few real joys of my life.
** "Poetry and Science", in The Dimension of the Present Moment (Faber & Faber, 1990)

## External links

* Iggy McGovern, "Strange Meeting: Science Meets Poetry", The Poetry Ireland Review, no. 108 (2012), p. 57
# Alastair Reid (poet)

Alastair Reid (22 March 1926 – 21 September 2014) was a Scottish poet and a scholar of South American literature. He was known for his light-hearted style of poems and for his translations of South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda.

## Quotes

* ... St Andrews, that placid centre of non-learning.
** "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970)
* The Borders loom in my mind as a small archipelago of stony towns in a placid sea of grass, woods and furrows, small, bristling islands in a state of armed truce with one another, with their village satellites, their lumbering bus-ferries, their pugnacious localisms.
** "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970)
* I can remember coming bursting in from just having glimpsed eternity in a grain of sand and being told, curtly: 'Your tea's cold.' It may be that tea is the reality and glimpses of eternity only a temporary foolishness. If I ever thought so, it might be possible to give up resisting and to belong.
** "Borderlines", in Karl Miller (ed.), Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (1970)
* It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels.
** "Scotland", in Weathering (1978)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Alastair Reid (poet) on Wikipedia
# Catherine Carswell

Catherine Roxburgh Carswell (née Macfarlane; 27 March 1879 – 18 February 1946) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women to take part in the Scottish Renaissance. Her biography of the Scottish poet Robert Burns aroused controversy, but two earlier novels of hers, set in Edwardian Glasgow, were little noticed until their republication by the feminist publishing house Virago in 1987.

## Quotes

* I have found that men, in all other ways admirable, have insisted upon flattery, upon extreme tact, upon suppression of opinion, in short, upon the sort of extreme and conscious consideration one shows to children or to persons suffering from nervous ailments.
** Lying Awake: An Unfinished Autobiography and Other Posthumous Papers, ed. John Carswell (1950), ch. 12, "Men and Women".
** Cf. Marion Reid, "We shall be disposed to acknowledge that woman's influence has been sufficient to obtain her justice, ..."

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Catherine Carswell on Wikipedia