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Wigfair Chapel - Features photographs of the historic ruin and of the surrounding area. The images are accessible via thumbnail galleries.

Bodlonfa Golf Society - Reviews of local courses and equipment along with information on the society based in Rhuallt.

"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Society and Culture The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Society and Culture "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Society and Culture When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "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) Society and Culture 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) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Society and Culture In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Society and Culture "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Society and Culture When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Society and Culture A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Society and Culture blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Society and Culture
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