Doudleby - Basic information about this municipality located 10km from Ceske Budejovice, with a short history and image gallery.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Doudleby Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Doudleby
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Doudleby The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Doudleby
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick 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 Doudleby "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Doudleby
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Doudleby Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Doudleby
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Doudleby "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Doudleby
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "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) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Doudleby "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Doudleby
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Doudleby Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Doudleby
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Doudleby 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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Doudleby
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 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Doudleby "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Doudleby
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Doudleby Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Doudleby
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Doudleby Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Doudleby
