Quotes About Mauritius

#1. I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

Rory Bremner

#2. And that is what Mauritius is most famous for: the extinction of the dodo.

Douglas Adams

#3. I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#4. After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.

Cilla Black

#5. The ill-fated dodo. Slow, flightless and dangerously trusting, the dodo was driven to extinction just seventy years after first being spotted by European sailors on its island home of Mauritius.

Bill Bryson

#6. History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

Edward Gibbon

#7. The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

Watchman Nee

#8. Your attitudes contain your future.

Bryant McGill

#9. Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

#10. As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.

Geoffrey Moore

#11. We were supposed to be having a serious conversation about where we were headed - or indeed why we were headed nowhere - but it was proving impossible. Banter was the only register we seemed capable of and without it we'd lost all means of communication.

Catherine Sanderson

#12. The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

Dick Cavett

#13. The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

Peter Hammill