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United States - Includes much information about the Holy See's diplomatic relationships with the U.S. and with others, as well as a biography of the ambassador.
Peru - With contact details, information about the library, and more in Spanish.
Canada - Canadian Embassy in the Holy See. Includes a service allowing Canadian Citizens to reserve tickets to Papal Events.
Australia - Has contact information for the Australian Embassy to The Holy See, and a CV of the ambassador.
South Korea - Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Holy See. Has translations of various official greetings into Italian and Latin.
Indonesia - Indonesian Embassy to the Holy See, with photo galleries of some embassy functions.
Czech Republic - The Embassy of the Czech Republic at the Holy See in Vatican, also accredited to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Has speeches of the ambassador.
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Foreign I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Foreign In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Foreign He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Foreign Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Foreign I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Foreign We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis Foreign If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Foreign If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Foreign Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Foreign In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Foreign "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Foreign In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks Foreign I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "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) Foreign The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker 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 Foreign Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Foreign You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Foreign "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying Foreign Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Foreign "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Foreign "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein 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 Foreign Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Man and wife make one fool. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Foreign
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