United States - Established 1798, the American Consulate in Scotland is among the oldest American diplomatic establishments. Includes a list of Scottish law firms willing to handle cases involving American citizens.
Japan - Consulate General of Japan in Edinburgh, with consular jurisdiction in Scotland and the North East of England. Has information on the history of Japan-Scotland links, on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, and a message from the Consul General.
Norway - Norwegian Consulate General in Edinburgh, taking care of Norwegian interests and promoting Norwegian culture and trade in Scotland, including Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles, and Northern Ireland.
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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Embassies and Consulates Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Embassies and Consulates
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Embassies and Consulates "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Embassies and Consulates
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Embassies and Consulates For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Embassies and Consulates
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Embassies and Consulates The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Embassies and Consulates
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Embassies and Consulates Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates
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 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Embassies and Consulates If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 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) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Embassies and Consulates Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Embassies and Consulates
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Embassies and Consulates I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Embassies and Consulates
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Embassies and Consulates "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Embassies and Consulates
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Embassies and Consulates Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Embassies and Consulates
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Embassies and Consulates A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Embassies and Consulates
