Bear Hotel - With a history traced back to the 12th Century, includes description of the accommodation, restaurant, and facilities for weddings and conferences.
Cartreglas Farm - Offers bed and breakfast in a converted farmhouse and a choice of two self catering cottages. Includes price details, pictures and a summary of the facilities.
Resident Guide for Cowbridge - Includes information on local businesses, public houses, entertainment and places to stay.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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-- Calvin Coolidge Travel and Tourism
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Travel and Tourism "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
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-- Countess of Blessington Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Travel and Tourism Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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-- Rick Radebaugh Travel and Tourism
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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-- Anonymous The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Travel and Tourism Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Travel and Tourism
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Travel and Tourism
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Travel and Tourism
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism "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) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
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