Parish Council of Santa Cristina do Couto - The council of this suburban parish near to Santo Tirso explains its location with maps and provides photographs and details of tourism and investment opportunities.
Casa Da Calçada - A former manor house converted into a hotel overlooking the river Tamega in the town of Amarante. Includes photographs and details of rooms and features.[Requires Flash.]
Forte S.Joao Baptista - 17th-century fort converted into a hotel in Vila do Conde. Includes photographs and details of rooms, restaurant and bars.
Quinta dos Chãos - Five apartments for holiday lets on a traditional farm at Parada de Todeia 25 kms due east of Oporto. Location map, photographs, description and prices.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Oporto The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "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) Oporto
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Oporto I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller 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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Oporto
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Oporto "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oporto
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Oporto "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Oporto
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 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 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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Oporto "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Oporto
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Oporto When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Oporto
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "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) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Oporto Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Oporto
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Oporto There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "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) Oporto
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Oporto Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Oporto
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 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Oporto It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Oporto
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Oporto The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Oporto
