Talgarth Tourist Information Centre - Accommodation, Events, Community Activities for this Market Town in the Black Mountains (Brecon Beacons National Park). An independent Centre and Access point run by Volunteers.
The Castle Inn - Country inn and bunkhouse located south of Talgarth. Includes a description of the facilities, tariff, extracts from AA report, Castell Dinas, and photo gallery of the surrounding countryside.
Trans Wales Trails - Based at Cwmfforest Riding Centre, and offering the competent adult rider a choice of riding holidays, with lessons.
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Travel and Tourism The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Travel and Tourism
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Travel and Tourism Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Travel and Tourism
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Travel and Tourism I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Travel and Tourism We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Travel and Tourism To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Travel and Tourism
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Travel and Tourism Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Travel and Tourism
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Travel and Tourism Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "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 Travel and Tourism Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Travel and Tourism
