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Cover to Cover - Bookshop located in Mumbles, with information about books, gifts, and items specifically for children.

Copley Stables - Riding lessons and trekking. Includes a description of the facilities, opportunities, and prices.

Gower Arts UK - Thumbnails of the paintings and drawings available from the artist who lives on the Gower Peninsula. Also includes contact details and an online enquiry form.

Gower SOS - Dedicated to saving the sands of the Gower. It details the fragility of the coastline and how the public can help protect it for future generations to enjoy.

Broughton Farm Caravans Ltd - Distributes new and used caravan holiday homes for sale and operate holiday caravan parks in the Gower Peninsula and Llangennith, Pembrokeshire.

Judith Roberts Opticians - Independent opticians located in Mumbles. Includes reasons to visit and services offered.

Holt Model Railways - Retailer of model trains and accessories. Includes a catalogue, map, and directions.

The Lovespoon Gallery - Located in Mumbles and offering handcarved Welsh lovespoons.

Bishopston and Pennard RNLI Branch - Includes history, contact information and details of the latest fundraising activities.

Mumbles Division, St John Ambulance - St John Ambulance in Mumbles and the surrounding area. Take a look at SJA in your local area.

Bishopston Comprehensive School - Includes a range of information about the school, including activities, results and pupils.

Gower Bays Surf Club - Providing local, national and international surf news as well as surf checks for the Gower.

Gower Heritage Centre - Based around a 12th-century water-powered corn mill. Attractions include craft shops, play areas and farm animals. Map and description.

Gower Birds - A guide to the birdlife of the Gower peninsula.

Gower Blog - A personal weblog on the Gower Peninsula - in words and photographs.

Llangennith Archive - Community site.

Gower Pub Guide - A full list of public houses on the Gower peninsula (South Wales) with a page containing photos, a description and map locator for each pub.

The Gower Information Centre - Describes the area and its facilities and history.

Enjoy Gower - Smart Looking Guide to Gower

The Gower Society Web Site. All about the Lordship of Gower - The Gower Society was formed in 1948 to protect the environment of the old Lordship of Gower and especially the AONB. We provide members and others with talks, folk dancing and the chance to walk through splendid scenery in good company.

Holidays and holiday accommodation in The Gower Peninsula, Swansea, South Wales, UK - The complete holiday guide to The Gower Peninsula, South Wales. Featuring the sensational beaches, breathtaking views, accommodation available and the local amenities.

Sianikatt's Gower Travelogue - Sianikatt's Gower Travelogue

Gower Graves - Details of the services available, including cleaning and graffiti removal.

The Mumbles Lifeboat - The official website of the Mumbles Lifeboats. Offers information about the lifeboats including latest launches, picture galleries and boat specifications.

"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde The Gower Peninsula My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers The Gower Peninsula Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager The Gower Peninsula If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The Gower Peninsula "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The Gower Peninsula The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler The Gower Peninsula Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings The Gower Peninsula Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder The Gower Peninsula Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford The Gower Peninsula "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen The Gower Peninsula >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman The Gower Peninsula Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson The Gower Peninsula If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon The Gower Peninsula "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The Gower Peninsula "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos The Gower Peninsula Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler The Gower Peninsula For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "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 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet The Gower Peninsula I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard The Gower Peninsula "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Man and wife make one fool. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, The Gower Peninsula "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw The Gower Peninsula I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The Gower Peninsula Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury The Gower Peninsula
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