Pravcicka Brana - Massive rock formation in the area. Includes description and history, transportion information, and an image gallery, plus details of hiking paths and news.
"'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) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Hrensko Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hrensko
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hrensko "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Hrensko
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Hrensko We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Hrensko
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Hrensko However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hrensko
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Hrensko "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Hrensko
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Hrensko "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Hrensko
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Hrensko Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Hrensko
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hrensko Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Hrensko
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hrensko "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hrensko
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Hrensko Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Hrensko
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hrensko Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Hrensko
