Henllys Village Nursery - Information about the nursey, the staff, and the activities that go on there. Includes an online brochure request form.
Cwmbran Guide - A comprehensive guide to local services and community information for residents and visitors to the town of Cwmbran in Torfaen South Wales.
Cwmbran Town Guide - This site provides a wealth of information including the most popular Cwmbran message board on the web.
R.A.F.A. Cwmbran - Diary of events and details of weekly meetings.
Soroptimist International Cwmbran and District - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women.
Mellys World - Personal page with information, photographs and links.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Cwmbran Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Cwmbran
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Cwmbran The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Cwmbran
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Cwmbran "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper 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 Cwmbran
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage is a rest period between romances. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cwmbran Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Cwmbran
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Cwmbran My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Cwmbran
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Cwmbran Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cwmbran
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cwmbran There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Cwmbran
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Cwmbran If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cwmbran
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Cwmbran This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Cwmbran
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Cwmbran You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Cwmbran
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Cwmbran A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Cwmbran
