Victoria Pier - Information about restoration and current events of Colwyn Bay's pier.
North Wales Coast Railway - Celebrating the line as it is today, one of the last refuges in Britain of the locomotive-hauled train.
Welsh Mountain Zoo - Visitor information such as opening hours and directions; also features conservation, history and education sections.
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Attractions Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Attractions
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Attractions I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Attractions
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Attractions "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Attractions
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Attractions I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Attractions
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Attractions "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Attractions
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Attractions Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Attractions
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Attractions Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Attractions
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Attractions Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Attractions
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Attractions Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Attractions
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Attractions Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Attractions
