Newport, South Wales - A site about Newport. Includes information on Transporter Bridge, history of Newport, national anthem and emblems, maps and pictures.
Save Our Ship - Successful campaign for the preservation of the 15th-century ship. Includes photographs, news, and record of the public meeting.
Caerwent Community Magazine - A community magazine, updated monthly, carrying newsletters issued by the various bodies which run the community, as well as a wealth of local and historical information.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Society and Culture
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Society and Culture
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Society and Culture
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
