Postcard from Blaenavon - A brief introduction to the town of Blaenavon. Places of interest for the visitor and the importance of Blaenavon's industrial history.
Abersychan Surgery - Information for the patients of Abersychan Surgery as well as information for health professionals and for doctors undergoing vocational training in general practice.
Blaenavon Town Council - Includes history, tourism, sports and leisure, and council information.
Biozyme Laboratories Ltd. - Offers enzymes and related biochemicals for bulk biopharmaceuticals production, medical diagnostics and healthcare industries. Contact details.
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Abersychan and Blaenavon "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Abersychan and Blaenavon
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Abersychan and Blaenavon There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Abersychan and Blaenavon
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Abersychan and Blaenavon "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Abersychan and Blaenavon
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abersychan and Blaenavon There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Abersychan and Blaenavon
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Abersychan and Blaenavon Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Abersychan and Blaenavon
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Abersychan and Blaenavon 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 "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." He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Abersychan and Blaenavon
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Abersychan and Blaenavon The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Abersychan and Blaenavon
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Abersychan and Blaenavon Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "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) Abersychan and Blaenavon
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Abersychan and Blaenavon He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Abersychan and Blaenavon
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Abersychan and Blaenavon It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Abersychan and Blaenavon
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Abersychan and Blaenavon When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Abersychan and Blaenavon
