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Portugal Gay Guide - An up to date and comprehensive gay and lesbian guide of Portugal. Also available in Portuguese, French and German.
Portuguese Culture - Ray Vogensen's controversial look at Portuguese culture including religion, humor, women, sports, driving, crime and Fatima for agnostics.
The British Community Council of Lisbon - Umbrella entity for British organisations active mainly in the Lisbon area. Contact information and list of member activities.
Cultural Policies in Europe: Portugal - Access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments in Portugal.
Sociologia - Portuguese scholarly journal on sociology. English-language abstracts and list of contents of recent issues on-line.
Portugal Roots Web - George Pimentel introduces the language, fado, discoveries, cuisine and architecture of Portugal, along with the history of surnames, family crests, coats of arms, and Portuguese Jews.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Society and Culture "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Society and Culture Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Society and Culture Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "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) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry 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 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Society and Culture I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "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 Society and Culture "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams Society and Culture Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture
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