Llangynfelyn - History of the parish of Llangynfelyn, including the villages of Tre Taliesin and Tre'r-ddôl. Includes documents of interest to genealogists and local historians. [English/Cymraeg]
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Society and Culture In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Society and Culture
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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" Society and Culture Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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