Atelier Vidal - Studio in Ilhavo engaged in painting on Portugese tiles (azulejos), ceramics and porcelain. Photographs of examples. Opening hours.
"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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Aveiro Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain 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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Aveiro
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Aveiro Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Aveiro
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Aveiro People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Aveiro
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Aveiro I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Aveiro
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Aveiro "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Aveiro
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Aveiro Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Aveiro
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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Aveiro "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Aveiro
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Aveiro The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Aveiro
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Aveiro Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Aveiro
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Aveiro When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Aveiro
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "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) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Aveiro "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Aveiro
