Gwent Family History Society - Information about the organisations with links to details of its branches, publications and services. Includes details parishes and places in the county, with news and events.
The Wye Valley - Details the history and legends of the Wye Valley and the Vale of Usk. Includes photographs and illustrations.
Sirhowy Valley News Page - Includes a brief history of the area, photographs and details of places, a summary of famous people, and a phrasebook of local dialect.
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Society and Culture "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Society and Culture
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "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) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Society and Culture Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Society and Culture
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture
