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South African Community In The UK - Visas, cheap flights, South African chat, photos and South African shops in the UK.
The Egyptian Association UK - Serves Egyptian Nationals within the United Kingdom without discrimination against political views, religion, or personal views.
Association of Jewish Refugees - Represents former German Jewish refugees and survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, London based, providing a claims office, monthly magazine for members, universities, study centres and researchers, and other services.
UK SriLankan online source - Community-oriented web site aiming to promote, integrate and inform SriLankans in UK.
Irish in Britain.net - An online resource and directory for the large Irish community in Britain.
Middle East Community in the UK - Links and information on Middle East societies, centres and institutions in the UK for welfare, academic and religious matters.
South Africans in the UK - For South Africans in exile in the UK to be able to find out about neighbours and future friends.
Voetsek - Portal for South Africans living in the UK.
Malaysian in United Kingdom - A page of links applicable to Malaysians living in the UK.
World Friendship - Help for international students in Liverpool
SANZA On-Line Community - Online community for South Africans, New Zealanders and Australians living in London. Providing resources for news, travel, sport, London diary, and online shop.
The Irish Post - A weekly newspaper for the Irish in Britain. News, sports, features, recruitments and specials.
Focus Information Services - Information resource for expatriates living and working in the UK. Includes career and job information, and FAQs.
Network Canada - The Canadian Connection Abroad - A business and social group for Canadians in London. Events listing, membership details, and information for expatriates.
South Africa Society - Society for South Africans in the country. Includes membership information, events, news and classifieds.
Belarusians in Britain and Ireland - Provides information about the Belarusian presence and activity in the UK and Ireland.
Expat Link - Independent site providing useful links to English speaking expats worldwide. It covers subjects from technology to travel.
Italian Cultural Institute - Based in Belgrave Square, London. Details of activities, other facilities such as library, as well as information on how to join and to make contact.
Egyptian Community Association in the United kingdom - Based at Redcliffe Gardens, London SW10. Details of activities and useful links.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Expatriate Life Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Expatriate Life Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Expatriate Life No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Expatriate Life I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Expatriate Life Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Expatriate Life I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Expatriate Life "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Expatriate Life He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen Expatriate Life The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach Expatriate Life The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 Expatriate Life "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( Expatriate Life There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Expatriate Life "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer 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 Expatriate Life To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Expatriate Life It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Expatriate Life A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Expatriate Life The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Expatriate Life If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Expatriate Life Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Expatriate Life The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Expatriate Life "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Expatriate Life
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