The Infant Jesus of Prague - Includes details of the location and history of the church, plus souvenirs and the service schedule.
The Praha Experience - Image galleries showing architecture from medieval to modern, plus notes on history and architects. Includes Prague Castle, St Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge.
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Architecture I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Architecture
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Architecture 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 "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Architecture
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Architecture That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "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) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Architecture
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Architecture The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Architecture
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Architecture 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Architecture
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Architecture "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Architecture
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Architecture Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Architecture
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Architecture "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Architecture
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Architecture It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Architecture
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "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) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Architecture "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Architecture
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Architecture The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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