AltCaldicot - Intended as an alternative to the official town site. Utilises a database to retrieve information about local services and places of interest.
Caldicot Community - Official community site. Includes information for residents, businesses, and tourists.
Caldicot Castle - Norman foundation, restored as Victorian home, set in fifty-five acres. Includes history, events and activities, facilities and access, opening times, admission prices, map and directions.
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Caldicot Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Caldicot
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis 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, Caldicot "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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Caldicot
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Caldicot "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Caldicot
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Caldicot "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Caldicot
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Caldicot I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Caldicot
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Caldicot It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Caldicot
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Caldicot Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Caldicot
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Caldicot Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Caldicot
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Caldicot "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Caldicot
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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Caldicot If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Caldicot
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 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 Caldicot Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Caldicot
