RAOB Lodges at the Sea View Labour Club, Barry - Royal Antidiluvian Order of Buffaloes Prince of Wales Lodge, General Lee Lodge, Major Gaskell Lodge, all meet at the Sea View Labour Club. Includes a description and photo of each.
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture
"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') Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "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 Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Society and Culture
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Society and Culture "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Society and Culture
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society and Culture I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Society and Culture Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Society and Culture Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
