Maerdy Community Centre - Description of the facility, list of management committee, and photo gallery. Includes brief history of the area.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Maerdy "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Maerdy
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Maerdy "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Maerdy
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Maerdy We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Maerdy
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Maerdy Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maerdy
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Maerdy Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Maerdy
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Maerdy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Maerdy
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Maerdy The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Maerdy
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maerdy The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Maerdy
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Maerdy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Maerdy
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Maerdy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maerdy
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Maerdy I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Maerdy
