Tredegar - South Wales - Home page of the town supplying historical and current news. Includes photo galleries and information about local clubs.
Tredegar History from 1800, it's development and it's people - The history of Tredegar from 1800. Also contains information about Sirhowy and Tredegar Iron Works and the development and progress to the modern day. It has details of the formation of local government and the development of buildings. Contains pictures and text.
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture "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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Society and Culture
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Society and Culture
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Society and Culture "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Society and Culture People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture
