A Collection of Original Quotes (Running post)

1) There are two extremes of diplomacy - hypocrisy and stupidity - he oscillates between them.

2) Never make a promise when excited or in desperation.

3) The only thing a man of no ability could indulge in is politics.

4) Besides war, the armed forces seem to indulge in two other chief activities - pots - one that they empty and the other that they fill.

5) An executioner's sould demands such rigidity that but for intransparency, it should pass off as a diamond.

6) "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises.." - Gandhi.
..And that's how we treated the English.

7) Philosophy is where people ponder aimlessly at everything to arrive conclusively at nothing.

8) The ideal Democracy for a Civil servant is where all stake holders shut up and vested interests shut out.

9) The bane of christianity being so prevalent is that most Atheistic literature is directed at it.

10) The only things that politics and bureaucracy banks on is the intellectual capacity of the fool multitude.

The first post - a salutation

It is the best of times (smallest gadgets), it is the worst of times (largest corruptions!), it is the age of wisdom (seats of education), it is the age of foolishness (MPs in Parliament!), it is the epoch of belief (Is there God?), it is the epoch of incredulity (Miracles do happen!), it is the season of Light (Diwali isnt up yet), it is the season of Darkness (we're not in Norway!), it is the spring of hope (will I live rich?), it is the winter of despair (still living :( ), we have everything before us (a glorious past), we have nothing before us (as if we ever had!), we are all going direct to Heaven (can count them in one hand), we are going direct the other way (stampede!) – in short, the period is so far unlike any period, that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Nothing like writing a first blog here: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known (brb).