Llandrindod Wells, County Town of Powys - Includes history, tourist information, accommodation list, guided walks, directory of businesses, leisure facilities, voluntary organisations, churches, local authorities, and events.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Llandrindod Wells People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Llandrindod Wells
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Llandrindod Wells Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Llandrindod Wells
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p 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 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Llandrindod Wells I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Llandrindod Wells
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Llandrindod Wells They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Llandrindod Wells
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Llandrindod Wells The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Llandrindod Wells
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Llandrindod Wells Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "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) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Llandrindod Wells
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol 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 couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Llandrindod Wells I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Llandrindod Wells
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Llandrindod Wells If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Llandrindod Wells
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Llandrindod Wells "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Llandrindod Wells
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "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) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Llandrindod Wells Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Llandrindod Wells
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Llandrindod Wells A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Llandrindod Wells
