Plav - Introduction and background for this village located near Ceske Budejovice. Includes a basic overview, history, views of the area, and contact address.
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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Ceske Budejovice Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Ceske Budejovice
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ceske Budejovice If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Ceske Budejovice
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Ceske Budejovice 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Ceske Budejovice
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Ceske Budejovice Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Ceske Budejovice
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ceske Budejovice I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Ceske Budejovice
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "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) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Ceske Budejovice For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Ceske Budejovice
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Ceske Budejovice Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Ceske Budejovice
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ceske Budejovice The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Ceske Budejovice
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Ceske Budejovice The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ceske Budejovice
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Ceske Budejovice Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ceske Budejovice
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ceske Budejovice The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Ceske Budejovice
