Welsh Folk Dance Society - Includes information on Welsh folk dancing and dances, the Society and its history, teams around Wales, folk dance events and festivals, Eisteddfod. English/Cymraeg.
Welsh Dances - An introduction to a range of Welsh folk dance traditions, distinct from the English Morris traditions.
Community Dance Wales - Provides creative opportunities for everyone to participate in dance. Training schemes, events, calendar and news.
Welsh Independent Dance - Artist led umbrella organisation for dancers and choreographers primarily living and working in Wales. History, opportunities, equipment hire and membership details.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Dance "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Dance
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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Dance your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Dance
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Dance Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Dance
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Dance "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Dance
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Dance He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Dance
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dance Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Dance
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Dance "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dance
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Dance "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Dance
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Dance "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Dance
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dance Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Dance
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Dance Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Dance
