European Commission - Delegation of the European Commission to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Includes a description of agreements between the EU and fYR Macedonia. Site in English and Macedonian.
Netherlands - Describes the general principles of Dutch foreign policy, and also the small projects supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Skopje.
United Kingdom - British Embassy in Skopje, with contact details, opening hours, and a message from the ambassador.
United States - Includes a mission statement and a biography of the ambassador.
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Foreign blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Foreign
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Foreign "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Foreign
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Foreign >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Foreign
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Foreign Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Foreign
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Foreign "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Foreign
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Foreign If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Foreign
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Foreign Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Foreign
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Foreign It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Foreign
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foreign "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Foreign
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Foreign Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Foreign
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Foreign Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Foreign
