Portmeirion Photographs - A collection of photographs of the resort, taken by the Mazuca family during their visits.
Virtual Portmeirion - Virtual tours, photographs and information about Portmeirion a picturesque village of architectural follies created by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.
Portmeirion - Italianate Village, famous as the setting for "The Prisoner". Includes information about the village and Portmeirion Potteries.
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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, Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Portmeirion Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Portmeirion
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Portmeirion "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, Alice in Wonderland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Portmeirion
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Portmeirion If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Portmeirion
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Portmeirion "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Portmeirion
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Portmeirion If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Portmeirion
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Portmeirion If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Portmeirion
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Portmeirion Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Portmeirion
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- 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) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Portmeirion Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portmeirion
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Portmeirion "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Portmeirion
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Portmeirion Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Portmeirion
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein 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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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" Portmeirion "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Portmeirion
