United States - The Welsh Affairs Office in Cardiff, part of the London-based United States Embassy. Includes a list of and links to various Welsh-American connections.
Thailand - The Royal Thai Consulate in Cardiff, including information on visas and customs rules.
Norway - Has contact details for the Royal Norwegian Honorary Consulate in Cardiff, which covers West, South and Mid Glamorgan, Powys and Gwent.
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Embassies and Consulates Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Embassies and Consulates
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Embassies and Consulates You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Embassies and Consulates
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 Embassies and Consulates If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Embassies and Consulates
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Embassies and Consulates
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Embassies and Consulates Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Embassies and Consulates
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Embassies and Consulates Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Embassies and Consulates
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Embassies and Consulates "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Embassies and Consulates
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Embassies and Consulates Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Embassies and Consulates
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Embassies and Consulates "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Embassies and Consulates
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Embassies and Consulates "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Embassies and Consulates I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Embassies and Consulates
