Colin's Wales - Personal homepage, with the intent to help tourists to Wales to visit places of interest with maps, directions, and commentary.
Fungus Turret: Its both Big and Clever. - The Comedy outpourings of the foremost Welsh comedians, sorry the four most Welsh comedians. Putting the Fun back into Fungal.
Digging up the Past - A collection of photographs documenting the decline of the coal mining industry. Contains information on the Bridgend Valleys of Garw, Ogmore and Llynfi.
Matthew Vivian - Information about a computer programmer.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Personal Pages If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Personal Pages
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Personal Pages "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Personal Pages
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Personal Pages Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Personal Pages
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Personal Pages Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Personal Pages
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Personal Pages Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Personal Pages
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Personal Pages There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Personal Pages
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Personal Pages Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Personal Pages
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Personal Pages Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Personal Pages
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Personal Pages I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Pages
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Personal Pages I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Personal Pages
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 Personal Pages Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Personal Pages
