Stechovice - Present state and history of the village.
"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') blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Stechovice In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Stechovice
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Stechovice "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Stechovice
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Stechovice They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Stechovice
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Stechovice Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Stechovice
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Stechovice "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) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Stechovice
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Stechovice Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Stechovice
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Stechovice The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Stechovice
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Stechovice If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Stechovice
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Stechovice "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Stechovice
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Stechovice Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Stechovice
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "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." "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Stechovice "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Stechovice
