Germany - German Embassy Malta. Includes information on foreign and European policies. In English and German.
Australia - Contact information and office hours for the Australian High Commission in Malta.
European Commission - Delegation of the European Commission to Malta, with a history of EU-Malta relations, and a list of agreements.
United States - U.S. Embassy to Malta, with information on current issues, and a CV of the ambassador.
Czech Republic - Maltese Consulate of the Czech Republic, including information on doing business with the Czech Republic, and on the charity Vision 97.
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Foreign Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Foreign
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Foreign When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Foreign
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Foreign "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Foreign
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Foreign When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Foreign
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Foreign "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Foreign
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Foreign We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Foreign
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Foreign Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Foreign
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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Foreign Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Foreign
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Foreign The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Foreign
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Foreign "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Foreign
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Foreign If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Foreign
