Presidency of the Portuguese Republic - The official site, giving information on Portugal and its history, as well as the activity of President Dr. Jorge Sampaio.
The Portuguese Parliament - Parliament of Portugal. General introduction, guided tour to the São Bento Palace, Constitution of the Portuguese Republic.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Government Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Government
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Government "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Government
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Government You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Government
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Government In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Government
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Government Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Government Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Government
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Government Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
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 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Government 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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Government
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Government Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Government
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Government Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 Government
