Severn Princess Preservation Group - History, photographs, newsletters, press reports, shop and membership details for the group preserving the last Severn ferry.
Chepstow Baptist Church - Includes diary of events, services, news, missions information, and testimonies.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain 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. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Society and Culture
"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) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society and Culture
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Society and Culture I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Society and Culture The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
