SGA Global

Signs Seen Abroad; Global Quotes

We know that the majority of Americans are not proficient in languages other than English. We also know that, for our friends in other countries (or newly arrived here), English is a difficult second language to learn. A sense of humor probably helps, which is what these examples are meant to impart. Signs seen:

• In a temple in Myanmar:  “Foot Wearing Prohibited.”
• In a Bangkok dry cleaner’s:  “Drop your trousers here for best results.”
• On a menu in Switzerland:  “Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.”
• In a Tel Aviv hotel:  “If you wish for room service breakfast, lift our telephone and the waitress will arrive.  This will be enough to bring your food up.”

Global Quotes

“A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.” -  Ambrose Bierce 

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” -  John Muir 

“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.  Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about killing than we do about living.” - Omar Bradley, known by his WWII troops as “The Soldier’s General”