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Welcome to Porthmadog - Brief guide to the area with a gallery of photographs.
Welsh Highland Railway/Rheilffordd Ucheldir Cymru - Features a history, pictures and information about the restoration project. Also includes a timetable.
Ffestiniog Railway - Contains timetables, fares, and information about the trains. Also includes information about guest driving and special events.
Porthmadog Football Club - Contains news, reports, results and articles.
Porthmadog - Features information about the town, listings of accommodation and restaurants. Also includes addresses for local services and attractions.
Ysgol Eifionydd - Comprehensive school: Features a welcome from the headmaster, prospectus and an events calendar.
Ffestiniog Railway Society - Supporting the narrow gauge Ffestiniog steam railway.
Ffestiniog Volunteer - Contains details on how to help maintain the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales. Also features a notice board, photographs, and social events.
Y Ganolfan Celfyddydau Porthmadog Arts Centre - Details of the centre, its facilities, forthcoming events, and contact information.
Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team - Voluntary organisation operating in the north west of Wales and the Snowdonia National Park.
Porthmadog Today - Features information and listings, promoted by the Cambrian News.
Rob Piercy Gallery - A bilingual on-line gallery for the Welsh Artist of the Year 2002.
Côr Meibion Madog Male Voice Choir - Bilingual details of the Porthmadog local male voice choir.
Porthmadog Golf Club - Photographs of the club, information about green fees, local accommodation and services offered in the pro shop.
Menter Iaith Gwynedd - Bilingual site for government language promotion initiative based in Porthmadog.
CYMAD - Bilingual site for local regeneration agency.
South Snowdon Wharf - A picture gallery of South Snowdon Wharf, Porthmadog, including the harbour and boatyards, Borth-y-Guest and Morfa Bychan. Updated periodically.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Porthmadog "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Porthmadog Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell Porthmadog Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Porthmadog "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "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) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb 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 Porthmadog Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Porthmadog After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Porthmadog Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Porthmadog When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Porthmadog Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Porthmadog Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Porthmadog There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw 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 Porthmadog "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Porthmadog Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Porthmadog I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Porthmadog 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Porthmadog The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw Porthmadog Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Porthmadog "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Porthmadog Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "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) Porthmadog "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Porthmadog Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Porthmadog
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