The GreenWood Centre - Forest heritage and adventure park. Contains activity and exhibition information, prices and opening times.
Hendre - Includes information about this preserved Victorian farmyard, shops, tea rooms, and banqueting hall. Also includes a map of the locality and contact details.
Felin Cochwillan Water Mill - History and photographs of the 19th century water mill. Includes details of current work and location at Tal-y-Bont, near Bangor.
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Marriage is a rest period between romances. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Attractions Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Attractions Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Attractions
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Attractions "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Attractions
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Attractions blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Attractions
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "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) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Attractions "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Attractions
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Attractions "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Attractions
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Attractions "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Attractions Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Attractions
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Attractions "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Attractions
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Attractions "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Attractions
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 Attractions I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Attractions
