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Casal dos Patos - Modern house, cottage and apartments by the sea at Praia da Areia Branca offering bed and breakfast/self-catering. Photographs include interactive panorama. Details and prices. Map of location.
Casino Estoril - The largest in Europe. Gaming, entertainment and events.
Golf Club Estoril - Overlooking Estoril with a practice area and a 9-hole golf course. Packages for golf lessons and hotel are available.
Metropolitan Area of Lisbon - A territorial zone that combines 19 out of the 29 municipalities of the districts of Lisbon and Setúbal. Map and details of its government and projects.
Hotel São Mamede - Two star hotel in Estoril, a village known for its casino, near Cascais.
Moana Surf School - Based on the beach of Guincho, near Cascais. Photographs and details of the school, lessons and equipment for surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing.
Hotel Império Jardim - Hotel in the center of the town of Torres Vedras. Includes photographs and prices.
"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) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Lisbon "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Lisbon Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Lisbon Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." 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(Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Lisbon Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Lisbon You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a rest period between romances. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Lisbon The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Lisbon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lisbon Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Lisbon Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lisbon That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Lisbon "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Lisbon History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Lisbon 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Lisbon Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Lisbon "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Lisbon We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Lisbon As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Lisbon "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Lisbon "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Lisbon The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Lisbon
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