City Map Prague - Interactive map of the city using Macromedia Flash.
Prague Images - Features photography by Bill Asher, with images of various city landmarks.
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Maps and Views "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Maps and Views
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Maps and Views If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Maps and Views He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Maps and Views
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Maps and Views The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Maps and Views
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Maps and Views Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Maps and Views
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Maps and Views Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Maps and Views
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "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) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Maps and Views "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Maps and Views
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Maps and Views Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Maps and Views
