Holy Trinity Church - Parish of Llandrindod with Cefnllys and Disserth, Church in Wales, with information about history, services, and the parish team.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture 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 would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Society and Culture
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Society and Culture
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Society and Culture
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Society and Culture Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Society and Culture
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture
