Llanfairfechan Historical Society - Society for individuals interested in the history of Llanfairfechan and the surrounding areas with regular lectures organised.
North Wales Clinic of Relaxation - Centre that offers relaxation treatments including Jin Shin Jyutsu acupuncture, massage, acupressure, aromatherapy, treatment of sports injuries and counselling.
Llanfairfechan Llais (News) - Local (community) news with photographs. Includes Arthritis Research, R.S.P.B. and Pant-y-Rhedyn .
St Mary's Church - Brief information about this former church, with photographs.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Llanfairfechan 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.
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Llanfairfechan
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Llanfairfechan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Llanfairfechan
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Llanfairfechan What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llanfairfechan
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "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) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Llanfairfechan There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Llanfairfechan
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Llanfairfechan Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Llanfairfechan
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Llanfairfechan Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Llanfairfechan
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Llanfairfechan Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Llanfairfechan
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Llanfairfechan Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Llanfairfechan
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 Llanfairfechan Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Llanfairfechan
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "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) Llanfairfechan "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Llanfairfechan
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Llanfairfechan If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Llanfairfechan
