Norway - Contact information and opening hours for the Royal Norwegian Consulate in Manchester.
Denmark - With contact information for the Royal Danish Consulate in Manchester for the North West. Includes driving licence and visa forms.
Switzerland - Swiss Consulate General with consular jurisdiction in Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland and Northern England.
Pakistan - Includes information on how to apply for a Pakistani passport or identity card, with application forms.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Embassies and Consulates The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Embassies and Consulates
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Embassies and Consulates Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Embassies and Consulates If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Embassies and Consulates
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Embassies and Consulates The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Embassies and Consulates
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Embassies and Consulates Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Embassies and Consulates
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Embassies and Consulates Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Embassies and Consulates
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Embassies and Consulates then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Embassies and Consulates A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Embassies and Consulates
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Embassies and Consulates "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Embassies and Consulates
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Embassies and Consulates "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Embassies and Consulates
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Embassies and Consulates
