Welcome to Monmouthshire - Information on the region, its culture, history, activities and events.
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Guides and Directories "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Guides and Directories
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Guides and Directories
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Guides and Directories Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Guides and Directories
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Guides and Directories Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Guides and Directories
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Guides and Directories "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Guides and Directories
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guides and Directories
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Guides and Directories The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Guides and Directories The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Guides and Directories
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Guides and Directories If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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