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Recreation and Sports Links

Madeira Fishing - Full and half day charters. Features company information, fish descriptions, booking information, fees, and contact details.

Pregetter's Orchid Garden - Orchid exhibition and nursery. Features history, orchid information, hours of operation, and contact details.

Madeira Game Fishing - Charter company. Features background and boat information, crew details, trip reports, photos, and contact details.

Katherine B Sportfishing - Big game fishing company including whale and dolphin spotting charters.

Santo da Serra Golf Club - Features history, course information, fees, photos, and location details.

Nature Meetings - Guided Levada walks, mountain walks and eco-tourism.

Terras de Aventura - Adventure and active tourism operator, offering walks, sea sports, diving, horse riding, mountain biking and canyoning tours.

Atalaia Scuba Diving - Diving club with additional information on activities and lodging.

Nautisantos Sportfishing - Offers big game fishing aboard the Margarita and Lara Jade. Photographs and details of the boats and fishing, particularly Blue Marlin.

Turipesca - Madeira game fishing centre run by José and Geny Braz. Includes the history of big game fishing in Madeira, photographs of Blue Marlin, and details of the boat and fishing seasons.

Madeira Diving Center - Provides diving in the natural underwater park of Madeira, organizing wreck, night, cavern and nitrox diving.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Recreation and Sports "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Recreation and Sports "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Recreation and Sports One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "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) 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 Recreation and Sports Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My other wife is beautiful. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Recreation and Sports May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Recreation and Sports "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Recreation and Sports We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Recreation and Sports I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Recreation and Sports When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Recreation and Sports "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Recreation and Sports
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