Monmouth Town Council - Includes the work of the council, directory of members, information about the town, and a list of governmental and non-governmental organisations.
Monmouth - Local directory for Monmouth which includes tourist information, a local web directory and a photo gallery.
Drybridge House - History and virtual tour of the restoration work.
Monmouth Festival - Nine days of free music and entertainment. Information on events and last years festival.
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. 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, Monmouth Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Monmouth
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Monmouth 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Monmouth
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Monmouth blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Monmouth
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Monmouth "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Monmouth
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Monmouth >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 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Monmouth
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Monmouth I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Monmouth
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Monmouth "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Monmouth
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Monmouth Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 May you never leave your marriage alive. "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) Monmouth
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Monmouth I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) 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.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Monmouth
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Monmouth 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. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Monmouth
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Monmouth I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Monmouth
