Llanelly Historical Society - Genealogical and family history site with downloadable PDF files containing details of births, marriages, baptisms and wills.
Dance, Foster, Dance - Information on local bands, football teams, artists and writers.
1st Llangennech Scout Group - Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts and Explorer Scouts in the village of Llangennech. 'Be Prepared' to have fun while learning valuable skills for life.
R.E.E.D. - Campaign site which seeks to address issues local residents in the Cross Hands, Llanelli have with the Local Authority. Environmental and Planning issues are listed.
Artimus Crisis Online - Official home page of the Llanelli based rock band Artimus Crisis. Band history, free music downloads, news, pictures and gig listings.
Band Station - Resource about local bands and solo artists including gig dates and news.
Llanelli Free Evangelical Church - Friendly Reformed Evangelical Church. Visit to find out more about Christianity, ask questions and leave prayer requests
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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-- George Santayana Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
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-- Theodor Reik Society and Culture Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture
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-- Mark Russell Assassins!
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ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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-- Woody Allen What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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pain When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Society and Culture Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Society and Culture
