Hotel Golfi - Three star accommodation availabled. Includes an overview, description of services and the restaurant, selected views, and contact details.
Podebrady guide - History and description of the sightseeing tour of the town.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Podebrady The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Podebrady
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Podebrady "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "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) Podebrady
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Podebrady "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Podebrady
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Podebrady He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Podebrady
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Podebrady "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Podebrady
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Podebrady Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Podebrady
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Podebrady When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Podebrady
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? An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Podebrady Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Podebrady
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Podebrady The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Podebrady
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "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) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Podebrady Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Podebrady
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Podebrady You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Podebrady
