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Monmouth Baptist Church - Information on Sunday services and weekday events.
St Briavels Centre for Child Development - Details of the centre, which works to improve the abilities and quality of life of children with learning disorders. Includes a statement of their philosophy, and a newsletter.
Monmouth Photographic Club - Introduces the club and gives programme of meetings and competitions, fees, pictures, news, links and tips.
Church in Wales, Monmouth Group of Parishes - Detailed information about the parishes in the Diocese of Monmouth, including historical notes and pictures, details about clergy, parish team, hours of worship, related links and contact information.
Monmouth Methodist Church - List of services, activities and contact. Part of the Monmouth circuit.
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. -- Herman Melville "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Society and Culture Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Society and Culture Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Society and Culture He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Society and Culture "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Society and Culture Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Society and Culture Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Society and Culture Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture
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