Bakerlite - Personal homepage of Mike Baker, a free-lance lighting director, including CV, photo galleries, and information about the village of Aberthin.
GENUKI: Cowbridge - A genealogical resource based around Cowbridge documents and records.
Reflections of a Globe Trotting Pensioner - Describes the tour made by a local pensioner cycling 17,000 miles in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Parish of Cowbridge - The Parish has ten churches and here you can find details of each one, together with times of services
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Society and Culture
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Society and Culture "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 Society and Culture
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 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 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Society and Culture Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Society and Culture
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Society and Culture The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Society and Culture
