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Talk Tidy - An indexed dictionary describing, in humorous fashion, the English dialect used in and around the Valleys of South Wales.
Million word lexical Welsh database - Word frequency analysis of 1,079,032 words of written Welsh prose, based on 500 samples of approximately 2000 words each, selected from a representative range of text types to illustrate modern (mainly post 1970) Welsh prose writing.
Gwybodiadur: A Welsh Informationary - A directory of language resources for Welsh learners, including the Web's most accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on Welsh dictionaries. Cyfeiriadur o adnoddau Cymraeg ar gyfer dysgwyr ac athrawon: llyfrau, tapiau, crynoddisgiau, cyrsiau, lincs, newyddion, ac yn arbennig geiriaduron.
Cadw Swn - Offer home study course for Welsh. Contact information.
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod "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) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Language Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Language Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Language Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Language "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous Language "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Language There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Language Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Language We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Language It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Language To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Language Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Language Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Language Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "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) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Language "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel 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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Language You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Language May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. What's new? Most of my wife. Language "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Language If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Language It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Language Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield Language "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Language
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