₦airaland Forum

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." ~THEODORE N. VAIL

THE LAST WORDS OF Queen Louise, Queen of Prussia "I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms."

"Be a friend to all everyday and, if you can, be an enemy to all every millennium!" ~ELDER GABRIEL JOLAYEMI

Are The Behaviours of Educated Ugly Ladies Better Than The Beautiful Ones? Please, let boys/men share their encounters and experiences.

"There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity." ~CHIEF NNAMDI AZIKIWE, the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

THE LAST WORDS OF Erskine Childers, Irish Patriot executed by firing squad 1922 : "Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way."

MORE UNIVERSITIES? I heard this morning that the Federal Government intends to establish new Universities in Nigeria. What bothers my mind is that the administrators of the existing universities have complained times without number, of inadequate funding. My question: Do we need the establishment of new universities or adequate funding of the existing ones and establishment of their satellite campuses in different parts of Nigeria? ~OMOKEMESI

THE LAST WORDS OF George Appel, executed in electric chair in New York, 1928: "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."

"Never explain yourself, yourself: Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it,"

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." ~EPICLETUS

"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be." ~HORACE BUSHNELL

THE LAST WORDS OF William Orange, first King of the Netherlands, as he was being shot by am assasin : "My God, My God, have mercy on me, and on my poor people."

THE LAST WORDS OF William Somerset Maugham, 1965: "Dying is a very dull and dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

"Think well before you take a plunge. It is very easy for a man to dive into the Atlantic Ocean without any knowledge of swimming. It will be very difficult for him to swim to safety." ~ELDER GABRIEL JOLAYEMI

THE LAST WORDS OF Heinrich Heine, a poet, 1856 : "God will pardon me, that's his line of work."

" Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truth." ~MOLIERE

THE LAST WORDS OF Victor Hugo, writer May 22, 1885 "I see black light."

"Opportunity comes to pass - not to pause." ~JAMES WALLACE