Ministry of Defence - The White Book - The canonical list of contacts for Commonwealth Defence Liaison Staffs and Foreign Service Attachés accredited to the United Kingdom. [html, pdf]
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - Foreign Embassies in the UK - Directory of all the representatives of foreign states and Commonwealth countries in London. Provides the name of the Ambassador or High Commissioner and contact information.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time 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 Embassies and Consulates Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Embassies and Consulates Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Embassies and Consulates
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Embassies and Consulates If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Embassies and Consulates
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Embassies and Consulates "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Embassies and Consulates
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Embassies and Consulates A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Embassies and Consulates
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Embassies and Consulates Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Embassies and Consulates
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Embassies and Consulates There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Embassies and Consulates
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Man and wife make one fool. Embassies and Consulates The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Embassies and Consulates
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Embassies and Consulates If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Embassies and Consulates
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Embassies and Consulates "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Embassies and Consulates
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Embassies and Consulates Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Embassies and Consulates
