Casa de Pomarchão - Manor houses from the north of Portugal with independent apartments in the main house and many country houses on the farm premises. Distances 2 km from the centre of Ponte de Lima.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Viana do Castelo America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Viana do Castelo
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Viana do Castelo By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Viana do Castelo
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Viana do Castelo The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Viana do Castelo
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Viana do Castelo I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Viana do Castelo
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Viana do Castelo "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." Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Viana do Castelo
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Viana do Castelo Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Viana do Castelo
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Viana do Castelo Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Viana do Castelo
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Viana do Castelo Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Viana do Castelo
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Viana do Castelo A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Viana do Castelo
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Viana do Castelo Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Viana do Castelo
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Viana do Castelo "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Viana do Castelo
