Llechwedd Slate Caverns - Virtual tour of this attraction which includes an underground tramway and deep mine ride, with exhibitions and Victorian shops. Visitor and historical information.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Attractions 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Attractions
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Attractions Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Attractions
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Attractions 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Attractions
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Attractions The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Attractions
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Attractions You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Attractions
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Attractions The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Attractions
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Attractions "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Attractions
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Attractions Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Attractions
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Attractions Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Attractions
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Attractions I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Attractions
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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" Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Attractions I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Attractions
