Virtual Gloucester - Comprehensive information on the city, complete with a history, events, notice board, video clips, screen savers, pictures, and links to other local sites in a searchable directory.
Gloucester Council - Official website, created and managed by the City Council. Includes visitor information and sections for businesses that want to move to the city.
Old Gloucester - Old photographs of the city taken between 1900 and 1970.
Churchdown - Local information including views and walks. Features video clips of the area.
Living Gloucester - Run by the city council. Includes a history and local people.
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Gloucester "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Gloucester
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Gloucester For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Gloucester
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Gloucester If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Gloucester
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Gloucester One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Gloucester
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Gloucester Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Gloucester
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gloucester He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Gloucester
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Man and wife make one fool. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Gloucester Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Gloucester
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Gloucester "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gloucester
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Gloucester Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Gloucester
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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Gloucester Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Gloucester
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Gloucester 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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Gloucester
