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Anglesey History - General information about the Isle of Anglesey, including historical and natural history information.

Isle of Anglesey Library Services - Also information on library services and online library catalogue.

Llannerch-y-Medd Fundraising Committee - Includes aims and objectives and rules and regulations.

Menter Mon - One of 800 groups throughout Europe implementing the LEADER II programme. The aim is to encourage community-level economic development in rural areas.

OMI Anglesey - Introduction to the spiritual life of the Island's Catholic Community.

Parys Mountain Underground Club - The group consists of people from the Amlwch area who have a common purpose in trying to discover more about the history and under ground workings of the Parys and Mona copper mines.

A Taste of Anglesey - A collection of favourite recipes contributed by chefs of some of the best hotels and restaurants on Anglesey using ingredients supplied by local producers and processors

Broadband 4 Anglesey - Campaign site encouraging residents to register their interest in broadband services for various parts of the island.

Lifering - Community based fund dedicated to setting up lifebuoys at all popular fishing points.

The Adventures of the Witches of Llanddona - Details of a book written by John Morris.

Amlwch - History and genealogy of the Amlwch area.

Llyn Cerrig Bach - Information about this Iron Age site, discovered in 1943 by a local resident. Includes photographs of some of the artifacts found.

Anglesey Music Performance Studios. - A project to build a world class recording studio for local talent also live event organisation. Goals and contact details.

Anglesey Genealogy - Archives and libraries, church records and civil registration.

Anglesey Neighbourhood Watch Association - A community website showing best practices, security and safety information and other useful information on home security.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Society and Culture And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Society and Culture Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Society and Culture Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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 Society and Culture If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall 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 Society and Culture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Society and Culture We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Society and Culture Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Society and Culture The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Society and Culture Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Society and Culture
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