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Channels Lisbon - A virtual tour of Lisbon with hundreds of images, accessed via a sensitive map or search. Information on attractions, museums, restaurants. Online hotel reservations.
Virtual Tourist: Lisbon - Photographs and descriptions of tourist attractions.
AccuWeather.com: Lisbon - 5-day weather forecasts, maps, radar and satellite images.
Belem Palace - A virtual tour of the official residence of the Presidents of the Portuguese Republic, from the Presidential site. The palace was built by D. Manuel of Portugal at the end of the 16th century.
UKDave's Tourist Photo Guide to Lisbon - A light-hearted tourist guide to Lisbon featuring classic pictures and amusing commentary. Available in several languages.
Lisbon Pages - A guide to the city by Hugo Carvalho, which includes a description, chronology, list of museums and town plan.
Metropolitano de Lisboa - Official web site of the Lisbon Underground railway. Network maps. Information and news. Facts and figures.
Parque das Nações - An area for public use, with a wide range of urban facilities for culture, leisure and commercial use, developed from the Expo '98 ground in Lisbon.
Lisbon: Art, Fado and Food - Jake Biddington visits the Portugese Modern Art Center, fado clubs and restaurants of Lisbon.
Instituto Superior Técnico - The largest school of engineering, science and technology in Portugal. Undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. An introduction to Lisbon.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Lisbon A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Lisbon "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Lisbon 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Lisbon "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Lisbon "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Lisbon "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau Lisbon We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Lisbon "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Lisbon Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Lisbon I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Lisbon Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Lisbon There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce 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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Lisbon They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Lisbon As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic "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) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lisbon Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Lisbon "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Lisbon "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) Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lisbon Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain Lisbon "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Lisbon Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Lisbon A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Lisbon
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