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Residencial dos Aliados - Bed and breakfast accommodation offered in one of the city's architectural landmarks, in the heart of Oporto. Photograph, map and details of services.
Refúgio Café-Bar - An alternative rock bar in the historical center of Oporto. Offers a range of food and drinks with music. Portuguese and English text.
Porto Virtual Tour - Photographs and descriptions of tourist attractions in this city. Hotels information and on line reservations.
Oporto Heritage - Information about Oporto city's history, monuments and culture.
Douro River Cruises - Cruises on the River Douro. Hotel and restaurant boats.
M.M.N. - Company trading in clothing and fabrics.
Filipe Oliveira Dias, Arquitecto - Architecture firm with a wide range of specializations, public and private, as well as product design and art. Includes portfolio, contact, and profile.
Energaia - The Energy Management Agency of Gaia provides services for the promotion of rational use of energy and renewable energy.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Oporto Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Oporto 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oporto I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Oporto Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. - Jimmy Durante Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Oporto Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Oporto "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Oporto "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William Oporto When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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, Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Oporto You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Oporto Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Oporto A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Oporto Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Oporto "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Oporto The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Oporto We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Oporto "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Oporto The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Oporto Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman "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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Oporto You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Oporto If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Oporto "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. 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