Popular Religion in Portugal - Appearances of the Virgin at Fatima, religion in the north of Portugal, and origins of selected Portuguese popular saints considered by Ray Vogensen from a non-religious viewpoint.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Religion For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Religion
"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) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "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) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Religion Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Religion "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Religion
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Religion There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Religion
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Religion Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Religion
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Religion A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Religion
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Religion "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Religion
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Religion In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Religion "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) Religion
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Religion Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Religion
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Religion How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Religion
