Welcome to Holywell - Comprehensive guide to the town that calls itself the Lourdes of Wales.
Glen Davies - Providing consultancy and training at all levels to agencies working with vulnerable or marginalised people.
North Wales Buffalo - Details of the farming of Water Buffalo and using the milk to make cheese, ice cream & yoghurt, also fattening up to sell the meat. Contact details.
Holywell - A community web site for the town of Holywell, featuring news, chat and local business contacts.
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Holywell "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Holywell
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Holywell A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Holywell
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Holywell The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Holywell
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Holywell Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Holywell
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Holywell Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Holywell
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Holywell "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Holywell
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Holywell That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Holywell
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Holywell 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 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Holywell
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Holywell Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Holywell
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Holywell 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!
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Holywell
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Holywell Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Holywell
