Pension Primus - Accomodation on the peripehry of the town and interesting places in surroundings.
Restaurant Na Marjance - Traditional Czech cuisine and a fireplace suitable for barbecue.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Beroun Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Beroun
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Beroun "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Beroun
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Beroun A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Beroun
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Beroun I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Beroun
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Beroun The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Beroun
"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, ignorance, g "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Beroun "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beroun
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "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) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Beroun "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Beroun
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Beroun "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Beroun
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Beroun "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Beroun
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Beroun He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Beroun
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Beroun Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Beroun
