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United Kingdom - Describes Embassy services, information on forthcoming events and advice for visitors to Slovakia. In English and Slovak.
Indonesia - Has the office hours and contact details of the Embassy of Indonesia in Bratislava, a profile of Indonesia, and information about consular matters and for potential tourists and investors.
Greece - With visa information from the Embassy of Greece in Bratislava.
United States - In English and Slovak. Includes a biography of the ambassador.
European Commission - Delegation of the European Commission in the Slovak Republic, supervising EU-Slovak agreements, and monitoring implementation of pre-accession instruments.
Belgium - Embassy of Belgium in Bratislava: contact details.
Denmark - Royal Danish Embassy in Slovakia, with contact information, a greeting from the ambassador, and more in Slovak and Danish.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Foreign "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Foreign "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." 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Mencken Foreign Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Foreign The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." 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(Henry David Thoreau) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Foreign There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) 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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Foreign They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Foreign Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Foreign "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill Foreign "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Foreign I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Foreign For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Foreign "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Foreign This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. 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