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St Hywyn's Church - Contains a history, pilgrimage booking details, and events calendar.
Aberdaron Community Site - Includes history, picture gallery, map, and local directory. (English/Cymraeg)
Communities First - Background and project information about the scheme for the parishes of Aberdaron, Botwnnog and Tudweiliog. Includes a forum, list of members, meetings, and news.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Aberdaron In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Aberdaron A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Aberdaron I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Aberdaron "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aberdaron When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Aberdaron Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Aberdaron The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Aberdaron Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Aberdaron My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Aberdaron I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard 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 "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) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Aberdaron I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Aberdaron "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Aberdaron A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous Aberdaron I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Aberdaron "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Aberdaron I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Aberdaron "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Aberdaron To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Aberdaron Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Aberdaron All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Aberdaron Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Aberdaron
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