Chester City Council - A guide to the city. Also includes information about the council.
Chester@Large - Independent reviews of Chester's pubs and restaurants
Chesters Gateway - A gateway site for the people of Chester and the surrounding areas.
Hoole Online - Details of accommodation, community information, businesses, schools, churches, and events.
Chester: A Virtual Stroll Around the Walls - Steve Howe of the Black and White Picture Place provides a guide around the Roman and medieval city wall. Map, modern and archival images with history of the city and its walls.
Chester City Guide - Locate businesses and places of interest within Chester City centre.
Chester - England's Walled City - Guide to historical and modern places of interest in the city, along with local activities.
Chester Image Montage - Interactive images and slide tours of places of interest in the town. Requires flash.
Images of Chester - Terry Horton's photographs of Chester, including the Abbey Ruins and various street views.
Chester Photos - Site showing some images taken in the area.
Chester Portal - Local portal. Area guide and local listings.
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Chester People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Chester
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Chester Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Chester
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Chester Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Chester
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Chester "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Chester
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chester Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "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) Chester
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Chester "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Chester
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Chester You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chester
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Chester The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Chester
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "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) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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) Chester The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Chester
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Chester Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Chester
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Chester Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Chester
