Azulejos de Lisboa - Colin Manning gives a photographic tour of some of the Portuguese tiles, known as azulejos, which adorn the inside and outside of almost every home in Portugal.
World Heritage Sites in Portugal - Manor Houses of Portugal Promotions provides photographs and descriptions of historic buildings given the status of 'World Heritage Sites' by UNESCO.
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Architecture In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Architecture
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Architecture A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Architecture
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Architecture A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Architecture
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Architecture 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Architecture
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Architecture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Architecture
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Architecture May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Architecture
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Architecture
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Architecture "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Architecture
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Architecture I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Architecture
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture "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) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Architecture
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Architecture It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Architecture
