Chester-le-Street Railway Station - Information on Chester-le-Street and its station. Coach and rail ticket bookings, travel timetables and multiple travel links.
Beamish Museum - Working museum which recreates how the people of the North of England lived and worked in the early eighteen and nineteen hundreds. Includes history, visitors guide and directions.
FrontStreet.co.uk - Directory of community information for local residents including business and services, news and events, and leisure and sports.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Chester-le-Street "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Chester-le-Street
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Chester-le-Street Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
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- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Chester-le-Street If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Chester-le-Street
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
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-- Mark Twain Chester-le-Street We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Chester-le-Street
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "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, Alice in Wonderland The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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-- Scott Adams Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Chester-le-Street
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Chester-le-Street "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Chester-le-Street
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Chester-le-Street "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Chester-le-Street
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Chester-le-Street 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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Chester-le-Street
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) Chester-le-Street Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Chester-le-Street
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Chester-le-Street Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Chester-le-Street
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Chester-le-Street "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Chester-le-Street
