Hlinsko - Official site of this eastern Bohemian town. Includes description, facts on local industry, nature, history, culture and sports.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Pardubice Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Pardubice
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 Pardubice Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Pardubice
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Pardubice "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Pardubice
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Pardubice A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Pardubice
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Pardubice Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Pardubice
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Pardubice With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Pardubice
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "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 heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Pardubice The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Pardubice
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Pardubice 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Pardubice
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Pardubice There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Pardubice
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Pardubice Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Pardubice
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Pardubice In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Pardubice
