Laugharne - History, scenery, general information on the ancient township of Laugharne.
Laugharne - Brief details of the town with links to accommodation and business listings
Dylan Thomas in Laugharne and Sea View - Devoted to the time poet Dylan Thomas spent in Laugharne and the house Sea View. Attempting to raise funds for renovation
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Laugharne Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Laugharne
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Laugharne Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Laugharne
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Laugharne Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Laugharne
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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Laugharne If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Laugharne
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Laugharne Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Laugharne
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Laugharne Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laugharne
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 Laugharne Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Laugharne
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Laugharne I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Laugharne
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laugharne "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Laugharne
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Laugharne Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Laugharne
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Laugharne What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Laugharne
