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Ireland - Embassy of Ireland to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with information for Irish people in The Netherlands on passports, moving and activities, and for people looking for information about travelling to Ireland.
Italy - Embassy of Italy to the Netherlands, in The Hague. Has general information about visiting and on doing business in Italy, with links to Italian news services and educational resources.
Denmark - Royal Danish Embassy in The Hague, with information on the services of this embassy, tourism in The Netherlands and Denmark and links on Danish culture.
United States - United States Embassy in The Hague. Includes a list of the Heads of Mission since 1781. Also has contact information for the Consulate General in Amsterdam.
Canada - Canadian Embassy in the Netherlands, located in The Hague. Offers information about doing business with Canada, assistance for Canadians, and information about Canada and the Netherlands.
Pakistan - Includes facts and figures about Pakistan, and consular forms and information. In English, Dutch and Arabic.
Japan - With office hours and visa guide, news and events, scholarships and education information, bilateral relations, and culture center.
Indonesia - Indonesian Embassy to the Royal Kingdom of Netherlands, with information on Indonesia-Netherlands bilateral relations, and on human right in Indonesia.
Romania - Embassy of Romania in The Netherlands, with a list of staff and facts about Romania's NATO membership.
Belarus - Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Kingdom of the Netherlands is only the diplomatic representative of Belarus in the Netherlands
Malta - Embassy of Malta in The Hague. Includes diplomatic activities, ambassador's biography, working hours, trade and news.
Bulgaria - A list of staff and contact information for the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Hague, and more content in Bulgarian.
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with basic information about the embassy, consular information, tourist information, and links to economic resources about Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Czech Republic - Embassy of the Czech Republic in the Netherlands, with a brief history of Czech-Dutch bilateral relations.
Belgium - Opening hours and address of the Embassy of Belgium in the Netherlands.
Finland - Has a list of the staff of the Embassy of Finland in the Hague.
China - Features information about the operations of the Chinese Embassy in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, bilateral relations and cooperation, obtaining entry visas, facts about China, and news and related links.
Australia - Consular section contains information for Australian travellers to, or residents in, the Netherlands, for Australians returning home, and for persons visiting or migrating to Australia.
Cameroon - Cameroon Embassy in The Hague, with a picture of Cameroon's famous football team, and information on tourism and visas.
United Kingdom - Provides information about moving to the UK, taking a pet to Britain, visas and passportsa trade, and free publications about the UK which can be ordered online.
Iran - With fragmentary information on the consular services provided by the Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran to The Hague.
Nigeria - Includes the Nigerian Embassy's statement on the fate of Amina Lawal.
Poland - Embassy of the Republic of Poland in The Hague, with information on the work of the political section, Defence Attaché Office, Consular Section, and the Economic and Commercial Section.
South Africa - Describes the embassy building, the former Head Office of the Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Company, and provides consular and vaccination information.
India - Embassy of India in The Hague, with trade statistics and consular information.
Morroco - With basic information about the Royal Embassy of Morroco in English, and more in Dutch and French.
South Korea - Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Foreign "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Foreign "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) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous 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. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Foreign How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Foreign People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Foreign Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Foreign "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "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." Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Foreign How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Foreign Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Foreign "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Foreign "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Foreign A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton Foreign A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Foreign Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Foreign It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Foreign 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato 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 Foreign The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foreign "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Foreign If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor Foreign Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Foreign I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Foreign Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Foreign
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