Pure Portugal - Guide and directory of holiday accommodation and activities in the Beiras region.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Beiras "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Beiras
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Beiras Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Beiras
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Beiras 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Beiras
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Beiras "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "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) Beiras
"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) 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Beiras Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Beiras
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Beiras Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Beiras
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Beiras An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Beiras
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Beiras "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, You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Beiras
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Beiras I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Beiras
"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) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Beiras There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Beiras
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Beiras "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Beiras
