Torfaen Youth Clubs - Website details the activities and programmes of local youth clubs in the Torfaen area of South Wales.
Torfaen County Borough Council - The official website for Torfaen County Borough Council. Information on all aspects of life in Torfaen with a very useful contact listing.
Children and Young Peoples Support - Charity offering support to young people between 11 and 25 whose lives have been affected by relatives or friends who have suffered or are suffering from Cancer
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Torfaen "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Torfaen
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Torfaen My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Torfaen
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Torfaen "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 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Torfaen
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Torfaen "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Torfaen
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Torfaen "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Torfaen
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Torfaen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Torfaen
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Torfaen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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" Torfaen
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Torfaen "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Torfaen
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Torfaen Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Torfaen
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Torfaen Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Torfaen
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Torfaen Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Torfaen
