National Council of YMCAs - Council documents, donation information, list of available facilities and a history of the council.
Wales TUC - Information about the Wales Trades Union Congress and access to news, documents and contact information.
The Builth Wells YFC Official Website - A highly sociable website for a highly sociable young farmers club from mid Wales. The site is packed full of info fun and games
Urdd Gobaith Cymru - Information about the history, resources and activities (including the National Eisteddfod) of Wales largest youth organization.
Children in Wales - Charitable organisation that promotes the interests of and takes action to identify and meet the needs of children, young people and their families in Wales.
Soroptimist International Wales South Region - Organisation for women in management and professions. Covering activities of 25 clubs in South Wales including information and photographs of community projects and activities.
North Wales Linux User Group - Information about the group for users of the Linux operating system with a mailing list and online forum.
BCS South Wales - South Wales branch of the British Computer Society. Includes newsletters and contact information.
Children's Services Wales - Source of information about adoption, fostering, child welfare and child protection matters.
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Organisations Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Organisations
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Organisations One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Organisations
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Organisations "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Organisations
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Organisations "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Organisations
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Organisations Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Organisations
"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) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Organisations Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Organisations
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Organisations
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Organisations Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Organisations
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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Organisations Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Organisations
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Organisations Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Organisations
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Organisations "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Organisations
