Woburn Sandsb and Town Guide - Listing pages for community, business and council, with history and old photographs.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Guides and Directories Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Guides and Directories
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Guides and Directories Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Guides and Directories I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Guides and Directories
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Guides and Directories Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 Guides and Directories
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Guides and Directories
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Guides and Directories All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Guides and Directories
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Guides and Directories I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Guides and Directories
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Guides and Directories
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Guides and Directories The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 Guides and Directories
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Guides and Directories A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Guides and Directories
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 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 Guides and Directories
