Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Quotes of the day

You know that famous proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"? Well, a former resident of Mogadishu has something along the same lines for Nicholas Kristof (don't bother clicking if you don't have NYTimes Select).
If I use a dollar to buy food, then tomorrow I have nothing. If I use a dollar to buy a bullet, then I can eat every day.

Ah, Somalia. Kristof is treated to more pearls of wisdom from Dahir Rayale Kahin, the President of Somaliland, which isn't even a real country.
There is a proverb in our country: ‘You can wash your body only with your own hand.’

Clearly, this Dahir fellow's wife is quite the prude.

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