Montes de Baixo - An old farm house in a nature reserve near Odeceixe with ten rooms to rent as holiday accommodation. Photographs, daily rates, location map.
Quinta do Barranco da Estrada, Baixo Alentejo - A small, south-facing lakeside guesthouse near Santa Clara. Water-sports and birdwatching. Photographs and details of accommodation.
Tamera - Cooperative at Colos founded by Sabine Lichtenfels, working to build a model for a nonviolent culture. History, activities and possibilities for participation.
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Beja Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Beja
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Beja All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Beja
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Beja Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Beja
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Beja No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Beja
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "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) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Beja Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Beja
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Beja Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beja
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Beja Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Beja
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Beja It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Beja
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 Beja Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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 a Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Beja
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Beja "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Beja Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Beja
