Guide to Silves - Town map with history, photographs and details of monuments.
Casa dos Sonhos - Secluded, modernised cottage to the south east of Silves for holiday rentals, with its own pool. Photographs and details.
Figueirinha - Two privately-owned fully-equipped self-catering apartments near Silves.
Casa das Oliveiras - A family-run guesthouse in Montes da Vala in the Silves area offering bed and breakfast accommodation. Includes photographs, prices and details of facilities.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Silves 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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Silves
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Silves Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Silves
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Silves The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Silves
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Silves "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Silves
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Silves While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Silves
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 Silves Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Silves
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Silves The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Silves
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Silves 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Silves
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Silves I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Silves
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Silves Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Silves
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Silves Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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