“The keenest sorrow is to recognise ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” – Sophocles It is with horror and disgust that I wa...

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” - Jessamyn West Well, my computer is fixed - it turns out that there was a problem with soft...

“Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.” - Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a few notes of a song half heard w...

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” - William Makepeace Thackeray I have been distressed these past few ...

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill Today, 1st of De...

“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” - Welsh Proverb For Art Sunday today, a painting by South Australian Artis...

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” - Russell Baker In the 1960s in Greece a group of young university students...

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” - Will Rogers I was in Brisbane today for ...

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” - W.T. Purkiser It is a special day in ...

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” - Rabindranath Tagore Do you Love me? “Do you love me,” she said, “do you love me?” A...

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” - Seneca Adelaide has a good atmosphere about it. It is a little big city. While...

“We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.” - Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard I am travelling for w...

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher Francisco de Goya y Lucient...

“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” - George Wildman Ball As time passes our memory dulls acute pains of yesterday while the pleasures we have ...

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.” - Henry David Thoreau Today i...

“Be not the slave of Words.” - Thomas Carlyle Do you know what a “ghost word” is? ghost word |gōst wərd|noun a word that is not actually u...

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” - Jean Anouilh Without your Love Without leaves, a twig is dead wood. Without water, a river is n...

“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” - Cicero I had a meeting with my publisher today and we disc...

“We are born princes and the civilising process makes us frogs.” – Publilius Syrus Last weekend we watched Mel Gibson’s 2006 film “Apocalypt...

“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” - Lucy Maud Montgomery For art Sunday this week, a favourite painting of mine by...