The Conwy Valley - Conwy Council's guide to the beautiful the locality. Accommodation, attractions, activities, plus useful tourist information for the potential visitor.
Croeso Nant Conwy - Information about places to stay, places to go, and things to do in the Conwy Valley.
Bodnant Garden - The National Trust handbook description of the Garden, with opening times and prices.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "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." Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism
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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Travel and Tourism Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Travel and Tourism To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Travel and Tourism 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Travel and Tourism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Travel and Tourism
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Travel and Tourism "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Travel and Tourism
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Travel and Tourism
