Betws-y-Coed Golf Club - Information about this 9-hole course and its clubhouse and events calendar.
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Betws y Coed Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Betws y Coed
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "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) Betws y Coed It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Betws y Coed
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Betws y Coed Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Betws y Coed
"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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Betws y Coed What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Betws y Coed
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Betws y Coed "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' Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Betws y Coed
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Betws y Coed People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Betws y Coed
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Betws y Coed "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Betws y Coed
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Betws y Coed If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Betws y Coed
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Betws y Coed The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Betws y Coed
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Betws y Coed America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Betws y Coed
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Betws y Coed "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Betws y Coed
