Tenby Museum and Art Gallery - Permanent displays of archeaology, geology, natural, maritime and social history of Tenby and South Pembrokeshire, Wales. Paintings by Austus John, Gwen John, Charles Norris and other artists of Pembrokeshire.
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "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) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Arts and Entertainment
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Arts and Entertainment
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Arts and Entertainment "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Arts and Entertainment
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Arts and Entertainment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Arts and Entertainment What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Arts and Entertainment It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Arts and Entertainment
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Arts and Entertainment blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Arts and Entertainment
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts and Entertainment There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Arts and Entertainment
