Aberfan Disaster - Set up as part of a project to catalogue and conserve an archive of material relating to the 21 October 1966 disaster.
Dowlais Male Choir - Concert dates, repertoire and information about the conductor and accompanist.
Hebron Evangelical Church, Dowlais - A Reformed Baptist Church which meets in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. Extending a warm welcome to all visitors and locals.
Jones Family History - Includes a family tree, family photograph album, Welsh recipes, memories and historical information about the town, and a filmography of Eric Francis.
Niki's Page - Explores her hobbies, particularly art and teaching.
Joseph Parry - Biography and music of Joseph Parry (1841-1903)
Dowlais Community Development Forum - Group of people who are interested in developing the Dowlais electoral ward. Contact and activities details.
Cyfarthfa Ironworks - Historical text and images about evidence taken from workers by an 1842 inquiry into employment of children in iron and coal industries.
Education @ Merthyr Tydfil Museums - Offers information about Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Joseph Parry's Ironworkers Cottage and Cyfarthfa Furnaces site run by Merthyr Tydfil CBC. Includes details and contact information.
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Society and Culture The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Society and Culture
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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Society and Culture
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Society and Culture Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Society and Culture
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Society and Culture
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Society and Culture
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Society and Culture I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
