Llanrhos Parish - Information about the parish of the Anglican church (covering Craig-y-Don, Penrhyn Bay, Deganwy, Penrhynside and Llanrhos) including regular parish news and activities, contact details, the vicar's monthly letter, service times and church photographs.
Llandudno Churches - The locations of churches and times of services in the area.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
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expect i Society and Culture Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Society and Culture
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Society and Culture
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Society and Culture
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Society and Culture A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Society and Culture
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
