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Madeira Business Centre - Offers fully-equipped private offices with broadband, video conference and multi-lingual staff support for short or long term rent.

Tax Time & E-Trade Management - Business, financial, marketing and company management specialists and consultants.

Dixcart Data Centre Madeira - Business management company in the Free Trade Zone of Madeira. Offers data centre facilities, server hosting, web hosting, accounting, staff, premises, and management.

International School of Madeira - A private international bilingual primary and nursery school based in Funchal.

Casa Papagaio - A bed and breakfast guest house with a sea view. Photographs and details.

Casa Ramos - Offers accommodation at a privately owned guesthome in Funchal.

Quinta da Fonte - A restored mansion style guesthouse offering bed and breakfast accommodation in Funchal. Photographs and details.

Reid's Palace Hotel - A hotel set on the clifftops overlooking the Bay of Funchal, with a varied choice of restaurants and sporting facilities.

Crowne Plaza Resort - A five star hotel located in landscaped gardens. Photographs and details, including location maps.

Choupana Hills Resort - Luxury hotel in a subtropical garden, with an incredible view over the city of Funchal, the harbour and the Atlantic ocean.

Quinta da Bela Vista - This five-star hotel created from a 19th-century manor house is decorated with antiques and has restaurants, bars, swimming pool, gymnasium, and tennis all surrounded by gardens. Photographs and details.

Porto Bay Hotels & Resorts - A group including the five-star Cliff Bay resort hotel, the four-star Hotel Porto Santa Maria, and Vila Porto Mare resort. Photographs and details.

Abel Apartments - Self-catering apartments in front of vineyards in the São João suburb of Funchal.

Apartamentos Turisticos Chafariz - Self-catering apartments in the very heart of Funchal.

Apartamentos Turísticos Oudinot - Modern air conditioned self-catering apartments for long or short stays in the busy heart of Funchal.

Ocean Cliffs - One-bedroom apartment with balcony overlooking the sea at Funchal to rent.

Quinta da Boa Esperanca - Luxury villa for self-catering holidays in central Funchal.

Madeira Tecnopolo - Official institution on Madeira developing a centre for the research, promotion and development of local sciences, new technologies, culture, tourism, and environmentally friendly services.

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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Funchal Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Funchal "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Funchal "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Funchal "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed 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 Funchal "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." "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Funchal Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Funchal Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Funchal 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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Funchal A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Funchal Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Funchal Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Funchal Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Funchal A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Funchal "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Funchal It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal "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) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Funchal Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Funchal To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West Funchal Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid 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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Funchal We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Funchal "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Funchal "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Funchal
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