Welsh Coal Mines - Photographs, history, and poems about the collieries of Gwent.
Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust - Provides an archaeological advisory service to public and private bodies and maintains the regional Sites and Monuments Record. The Contractual Division provides archaeological services.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Society and Culture
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Society and Culture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Society and Culture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Society and Culture
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Society and Culture No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Society and Culture "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 Society and Culture Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Society and Culture
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Society and Culture
