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Portland Port - Portland Harbour is unique in the facilities and protection it offers vessels within its safe, sheltered and uncrowded waters. This has been enhanced by the features offered at the port.
The Portland Bureau - The Isle and People of Portland. Photographic site.
Exploring Portland - This site includes over 500 pictures and maps of the Isle of Portland together with historical and local information.
Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust - The Trust is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of the traditional skills and understanding of Portland masons and quarry workers. Includes details about the Trust's work and contact information.
Portland Steam Show - Where the annual Steam & Vintage show is fully described with listings of all exhibits.
Osprey Quay - A waterside development on part of the former Portland Navel Docks. Includes details of the current and future facilities and opportunities for marine industries, commercial, leisure and tourism businesses to move to the area.
Portland holiday home to rent near Weymouth and Dorset, - Luxury holiday home for rent in Portland Dorset, 3 miles from Weymouth and Portland Bill. Furnished to a high standard sleep's 6 plus double futon. Call 01202 620444 for more details.
Sureline Buses - A bus company based at Portland. Includes up-to-date timetables, fares information and contact details.
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I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Portland He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Portland By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. 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(Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Portland Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Portland Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Portland "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Portland "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Portland "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Portland Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Portland 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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Portland "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Portland "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Portland "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Portland I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Portland "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Portland For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Portland Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Portland Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Portland "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Portland If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Portland
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