Caerphilly Mountain Protection Group - Information about the campaign, and advice on what one can do, to save the remaining greenfields on the south eastern facing slopes of Caerphilly Mountain.
Risca Male Choir - Introduction to the Choir, including concert dates and details of recordings.
Crosskeys - Includes a collection of photographs of Crosskeys and the adjacent Ebbw and Sirhowy valleys, local history and a bookshop specialising in books about Gwent (Old Monmouthshire).
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Society and Culture
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Society and Culture "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Society and Culture
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society and Culture
"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) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Society and Culture
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Society and Culture
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Society and Culture
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
