Canada - Canadian Embassy in Reykjavík. Offers information for Canadian citizens planning to visit Iceland and for Icelanders looking for information on Canada.
United States - U.S. Embassy in Reykjavík. Includes comment on the Businesswomen’s Mentoring Initiative, a follow-up project to the 1999 Reykjavik Conference on Women and Democracy.
United Kingdom - British Embassy in Reykjavík. Includes the text of a demarche condemning Iceland's resumption of whaling.
China, People's Republic of - Includes information on Chinese literature, painting, opera, dance, arts and crafts, and on the diplomatic exchange whereby China supported Iceland's fishing claims in return for Icelandic recognition.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Foreign "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little My other wife is beautiful. Foreign
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Foreign "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Foreign
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Foreign "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Foreign
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Foreign The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Foreign
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Foreign "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Foreign
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Foreign How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Foreign
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Foreign My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Foreign
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Foreign "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Foreign
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Foreign Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Foreign
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Foreign Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Foreign
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Foreign Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Foreign
