Czech Astronomy Society - Association for professional and amateur astronomers. Includes an overview of the organisation, contact details, and images.
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Astronomy "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "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 Astronomy
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Astronomy 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Astronomy
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Astronomy blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Astronomy
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Astronomy "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Astronomy
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Astronomy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Astronomy
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Astronomy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Astronomy
"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) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Astronomy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Astronomy
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Astronomy As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Astronomy
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Astronomy Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Astronomy
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Astronomy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Astronomy
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Astronomy My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Astronomy
