Ruthin Town Council - Guide to Ruthin, featuring information on events and where to stay, town history and a virtual tour.
"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 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Ruthin If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Ruthin
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Ruthin "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Ruthin
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Ruthin The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Ruthin
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Ruthin The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Ruthin
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ruthin The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Ruthin
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "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) 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 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Ruthin "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Ruthin
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Ruthin Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Ruthin
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Ruthin I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Ruthin
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Ruthin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Ruthin
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 Ruthin When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Ruthin
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Ruthin 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 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Ruthin
