Lampeter Chamber of Trade and Commerce - Includes a guide to the town and district, a history, pictures, and contacts for local organisations. (English/Cymraeg)
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Lampeter Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Lampeter
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Lampeter Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Lampeter
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Lampeter The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lampeter
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Lampeter "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Lampeter
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lampeter "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lampeter
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Lampeter "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lampeter
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Lampeter 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 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Lampeter
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Lampeter 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Lampeter
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Lampeter It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Lampeter
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. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Lampeter Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Lampeter
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lampeter You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Lampeter
