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Map of Portugal - Expandable map of 1982 showing district boundaries, railiways and roads, from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Portugal Photo Gallery - A collection of 285 photographs of places in Southern and Central Portugal taken by Molon in April 2002.
Lonely Planet: Portugal Map - Map of mainland Portugal showing principal cities.
Shaded Relief Map of Portugal - Expandable relief map of 1982 showing district boundaries, railways and roads, from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
Map 4 Travel: Portugal - Interactive map showing districts, major cities, airports, attractions and hotels.
Images of Portugal - 1300 photographs of Portugal, Madeira and the Azores by Miguel Torres, arranged by district and by alphabetically by place. Access via sensitive map or list.
Portugal Book - Galleries of expandable thumbnail photographs by Pedro Correia of places in Portugal, particularly historic buildings and beaches.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne 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 Maps and Views "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." 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Lawrence Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Maps and Views I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views 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) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Maps and Views "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves Maps and Views Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Maps and Views "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Maps and Views Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Maps and Views Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Maps and Views "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Maps and Views For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maps and Views The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Maps and Views There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Maps and Views Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Maps and Views Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Maps and Views Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Maps and Views
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