Builth Wells Golf Club - Set in the Mid Wales scenery of the Wye Valley. Site includes full fixture list and booking form.
Paramania - Teaches paragliding from beginner to advanced pilot. Includes details of the courses available.
Builth Wells Cricket Club - Includes club photo album, player profiles, latest results and a guestbook.
Builth Wells Male Voice Choir - Provides history, photos and forth coming event information for the Builth Wells Male Voice Choir.
Wyeside Arts Centre - Cinema, arts centre and theatre. Site includes a building history and listings for live shows, arts gallery and the cinema.
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 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Recreation and Sports
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Recreation and Sports
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Recreation and Sports It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Recreation and Sports
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Agatha Christie "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "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) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Recreation and Sports Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
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 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? If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Recreation and Sports
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Recreation and Sports Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Recreation and Sports
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Recreation and Sports And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Recreation and Sports Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Recreation and Sports "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
