Jihlava - Official guide to the statutory town's history, sights and surroundings.
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 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jihlava Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Jihlava
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Jihlava "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Jihlava
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Jihlava You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Jihlava
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Jihlava Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Jihlava
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Jihlava Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Jihlava
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Jihlava 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Jihlava
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Jihlava It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Jihlava
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Jihlava "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Jihlava
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Jihlava You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Jihlava
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Jihlava Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Jihlava
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Jihlava I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Jihlava
