Lokalink - Interactive pictorial virtual visit to many towns and villages in Wales with photographs, pictures and information.
WalesUK - Pictures from across Wales, categorized by location.
Wales Photographs Albums - Photographs from a family vacation with photos of castles and other historic sites with brief historical information of each site.
Times Past - Photo archive of North Wales. Intended as a reference resource for students, researchers and historical societies, or for those interested in the work of early Welsh postcard photographers.
Newbould Dave - Snowdonia and North Wales. Hundreds of photographs grouped into categories such a mountains, lakes, rivers and castles.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 Maps and Views If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Maps and Views
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Maps and Views "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Maps and Views
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Maps and Views
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Maps and Views
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Maps and Views In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Maps and Views
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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Maps and Views blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Maps and Views
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Maps and Views 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Maps and Views
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Maps and Views For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Maps and Views
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Maps and Views A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
