Chepstow - Cas Gwent - Official town council site. Includes tourist information, business directory, event calendar.
Castle View Hotel - Bed and breakfast accommodation. Set opposite Chepstow Castle and overlooking the River Wye. Information on facilities, tariff and restaurant.
Chepstow Festival - Month long festival showcasing local talent and professional performers; many events held in Chepstow Castle. Programme details and booking information.
Pembroke Primary School - Ages 4 to 11. Includes teacher profiles and examples of classwork.
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Chepstow Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Chepstow
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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Chepstow In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Chepstow
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Chepstow In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Chepstow
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Chepstow "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Chepstow
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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Chepstow Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Chepstow
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Chepstow A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Chepstow
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Chepstow Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Chepstow
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Chepstow Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Chepstow
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "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) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Chepstow "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Chepstow
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Chepstow I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Chepstow
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Chepstow "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Chepstow
