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China - Beijing - Icelandic Embassy in Beijing, accredited to China, Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam. Includes information on Iceland and its government.
Mozambique - Maputo - Embassy of Iceland in Maputo, accredited to Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, Malawi and Uganda. Includes links to information about Iceland.
Finland - Helsinki - Embassy of Iceland in Helsinki, accredited to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Ukraine. With links to information about Iceland.
United Kingdom - London - Contact information for and a monthly newsletter from the Embassy of Iceland in London, which is accredited to the United Kingdom, Greece, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, India, Maldives, Nepal and Nigeria.
Canada - Ottawa - Iceland's Embassy to Canada. Includes information on Iceland, its people and their late-19th-century emigration to Canada.
Norway - Oslo - Embassy of Iceland in Oslo, accredited to Norway, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Macedonia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. With consular information, and more in Norwegian and Icelandic.
Russia - Moscow - Embassy of Iceland in Moscow, accredited to Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kirghizia, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
European Communities - Includes contact information for the Embassy of Iceland to the European Communities.
Japan - Tokyo - Contact information for the Embassy of Iceland in Tokyo and the Consulate in Nagano, with information on Iceland and its history and culture.
United States - Washington DC - Embassy of Iceland in Washington DC, accreditied to the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Uruguay. Includes contact details for the consulates and honorary consulates in Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Mountain, Harrisburg, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Seattle, Tallahassee, Buenos Aires, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago, Guatemala City, Campeche, Guymas, México City, and Montevideo.
United Nations - New York - Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations in New York, also accredit to Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, and Grenada. Includes a list of staff and official statements.
United Nations - Vienna - Iceland's Permanent Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the United Nations Office at Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.
Canada - Winnipeg - Consulate General of Iceland in Winnipeg, including lists of Icelandic-Canadian and Nordic-Canadian organizations.
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(Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Abroad blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Abroad When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Abroad Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Abroad Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Abroad "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Abroad We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Abroad Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Abroad If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Abroad Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Abroad The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Abroad "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Abroad Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Abroad Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Abroad "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. 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