Snowdonia Slate and Stone - Offers a product list, company profile, a virtual portfolio and contact details.
Hafod Art - A retreat for artists and writers: Shows details of the studio, self-catering accommodation and courses offered. Also includes tariff and contact information.
Ffestinog - Information for visitors, and about community facilities and local business, with history and photos.
Snowdonia Natural Slate Products - Company profile and products offered by organisation manufacturing Welsh slate products utilising local craftsmanship and knowledge.
Moelwyn Gymnasics Club - Details of coaches, activities and events. Gallery and contact information.
Holy Cross Church and St Mary Magdalene's - Parish churches staffed by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Mass times for both churches, and a history of Catholicism in Gellilydan.
Cor Y Brthoniaid - Information about Blaenau Ffestiniog's premier Welsh Male Voice Choir. Website provides information on the choir, concert and events timetable, background and contact details.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Blaenau Ffestiniog Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blaenau Ffestiniog
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Blaenau Ffestiniog The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Blaenau Ffestiniog
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Blaenau Ffestiniog Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Blaenau Ffestiniog
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Blaenau Ffestiniog "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Blaenau Ffestiniog
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Blaenau Ffestiniog I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Blaenau Ffestiniog
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Blaenau Ffestiniog "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Blaenau Ffestiniog
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Blaenau Ffestiniog What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Blaenau Ffestiniog
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Blaenau Ffestiniog Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Blaenau Ffestiniog
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Blaenau Ffestiniog You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Blaenau Ffestiniog
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Blaenau Ffestiniog The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Blaenau Ffestiniog
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Blaenau Ffestiniog It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Blaenau Ffestiniog
