Growing up on a Radnorshire Hill Farm in the 1920s - The story of George Lewis and his upbringing on a Radnorshire hill farm in the 1920s. Factual account of the education, family life and farming techniques in an isolated rural community.
Powys Family History Society - Society details, on-line journal and genealogical information for the historic counties of Breconshire, Radnor and Montgomeryshire.
Powys Digital History Project - The local history of communities in the heart of Wales from archive documents, photographs, and early maps. Includes information specifically for schools. [English/Welsh]
The Radnorshire Society - Local history society for the old Welsh county of Radnorshire. Contains excursion programme, annual transactions and separate field research section.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- Virginia Woolf "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell History
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein History "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo History
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show History "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Anonymous Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje History
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) History "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde History
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey History Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger History
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw History If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison History
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) History We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli History
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) History Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides History
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) History Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings History
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) History Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous History The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard History
