The 1971 Boys - News and photographs of the Old Boys of Aberdare Boys Grammar School representing the 1971 intake.
Cwmaman Club - Containing a brief synopsis of the club's history and activities.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Society and Culture
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture 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 will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Society and Culture
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Society and Culture
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society and Culture "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture
