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North Wales Index - The Anglesey page of the index is set out by village.
Loose Cannons Live Entertainment - Amateur theatre company aimed at taking theatre out into the community. Productions and workshops for schools a speciality.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Isle of Anglesey "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Isle of Anglesey
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "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) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Isle of Anglesey "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Isle of Anglesey
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Isle of Anglesey Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Isle of Anglesey
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Isle of Anglesey More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Isle of Anglesey
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Isle of Anglesey The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Isle of Anglesey
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Isle of Anglesey When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Isle of Anglesey
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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Isle of Anglesey Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Isle of Anglesey
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Isle of Anglesey Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Isle of Anglesey
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Isle of Anglesey "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Isle of Anglesey
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Isle of Anglesey Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Isle of Anglesey
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Isle of Anglesey "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Isle of Anglesey
