Island Farm POW CAMP 198 / Special Camp 11 - World War II German POW camp and site of the biggest escape attempt in Great Britain. Includes newspaper reports, prisoner biographies, description of the camp and its fate since the war.
Kenfig - A resource for learning about local history in the kenfig and surrounding areas. Contact details.
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Society and Culture "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society and Culture
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Society and Culture The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Society and Culture
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Society and Culture
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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
