Lions Club of Braintree - Community service, fundraising and fun; information on meetings, events and projects.
Braintree and Uttlesford Neighbourhood Watch - Includes crime details, alerts and warnings. Online social club for coordinators, advice on racial, homophobic, domestic violence issues and general crime prevention advice.
Braintree Hockey Club - A joint mens and ladies club with a large junior section and its own ground, all weather pitch and clubhouse.
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Society and Culture Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Society and Culture Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture What's new? Most of my wife. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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' He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "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) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Society and Culture
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
