Sustainable Gwynedd - Promotes the principles of Agenda 21. Includes the constitution, news, press releases and meetings information.
Mantell Gwynedd - County Voluntary Council serving the county, supporting voluntary organisations. Bilingual in Welsh and English.
The Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station - Information about the lifeboat, its crew, history, services and events, plus a facility to make a donation.
Gwynedd Archives - Contains details about the services offered, fees, conditions and a photograph gallery.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Society and Culture That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Society and Culture
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "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) Society and Culture "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Society and Culture
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Society and Culture
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Society and Culture Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Society and Culture
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Society and Culture
