Algarve Images - Hundreds of photographs of Southern Portugal by resident photographer Tony Purbrook.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Maps and Views Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views 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
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) Maps and Views
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Maps and Views The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) My other wife is beautiful. Maps and Views
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Maps and Views Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "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) Maps and Views
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Maps and Views
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Maps and Views For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Maps and Views
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Maps and Views Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "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) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Maps and Views I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Maps and Views
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Maps and Views Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "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, Alice in Wonderland Maps and Views
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Maps and Views Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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