Monterey Guest House - Three star guest house located a mile from Caerphilly town centre. Site includes sample menus, price details, and a list of nearby places of interest.
The Sirhowy Arms Hotel - Located in the High Street of Argoed, near Blackwood, with information about room and other facilities.
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Accommodation
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Accommodation Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Accommodation
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Accommodation Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Accommodation
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Accommodation People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Accommodation Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Accommodation
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. May you never leave your marriage alive. Accommodation The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Accommodation
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Accommodation "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Accommodation
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Accommodation Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Accommodation
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Accommodation The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Accommodation
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Accommodation "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Accommodation
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Accommodation A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Accommodation
