Segontium Roman Museum - Vividly portrays the story of the conquest and occupation of Wales by the Romans and displays the finds from the nearby auxiliary fort of Segontium, one of the most famous in Britain.
Turner House Gallery - A varied and changing programme of pictures and fine art from the museums' collection. It is also a venue for travelling exhibitions and displays of work by local art societies.
Roman Legionary Musuem - In AD 75, a fortress was founded at Caerleon. Now, at the museum, you will learn what made the Romans a formidable force.
Welsh Slate Museum - Civilised close-up exploration of the largest working waterwheel in mainland Britain.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Museums The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Museums
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Museums Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Museums
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Museums I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Museums
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Museums "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Museums
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Museums "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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Museums
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Museums "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Museums
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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Museums The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Museums "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Museums
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Museums "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Museums
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Museums .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Museums
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Museums When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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