Ruthin Castle - Originally a Welsh fortress of wood and stone, rebuilt and enlarged in 1296. 58-room hotel offering conference facilities, mediaeval banquets and gardens. Denbighshire, North Wales.
The Castle Of Brecon Hotel - Norman castle c. 1100. 40-room hotel occupying the site and remains of the castle. Includes history, rates, special offers, site and floor plans, bistro and function menus, and information on local attractions. Brecon.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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-- H.L. Mencken Castles Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte Castles
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Castles There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
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-- Woody Allen Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Castles
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "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) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Castles Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Castles
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Castles To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Castles
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Castles "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Castles
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Castles "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Castles
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Castles Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "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) Castles
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Castles blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Castles
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Castles Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Castles
