Hobo Backpackers - Bunkhouse accommodation in the Brecon Beacons. Mountain biking, training and events a speciality of the owner. A base for numerous outdoor activities in mid Wales.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Accommodation Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Accommodation
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Accommodation
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Accommodation Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Accommodation
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Accommodation "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Accommodation
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Accommodation
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 a We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Accommodation
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Accommodation The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Accommodation
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Accommodation "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Accommodation
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Accommodation As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Accommodation
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Accommodation Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Accommodation
