Cerhovice - History and present state of the village.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Cerhovice "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Cerhovice
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Cerhovice "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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Cerhovice
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Cerhovice Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Cerhovice
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Cerhovice The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Cerhovice
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Cerhovice The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Cerhovice
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "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." Cerhovice You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Cerhovice
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Cerhovice "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Cerhovice
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Cerhovice A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Cerhovice
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Cerhovice If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Cerhovice
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Cerhovice Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Cerhovice
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Cerhovice Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Cerhovice
