“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine Breaking up is hard to do, and goodbyes ...

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.” - Robert ...

“It is a wise man’s part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.” - Thomas More As the numbers of the dreaded “Swine Flu” i...

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” - Robert Browning Our life is brief, our years in short supply like a small stack of parchment, wh...

“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.” - Cicero The history of civilisation walks hand in hand with the history of writ...

“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen I was in Brisbane for work today and the day was full of me...

“Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-191...

“A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” - Rupert Brooke Another very full day today, with attendance at a conference i...

“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” - Benjamin Franklin A very busy day at work today, but quite satisfying as I got much done. Food Friday...

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” - Jawaharlal Nehru The 21st of May has been declared by the United Nations as the W...

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.” - Heraclitus For Poetry Wednesday , some food for thought from William Johnson Cory....

“Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.”
- Angelina Jolie Today marks a commemorative day that...

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” - Sydney J. Harris T...

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” - Paul Cézanne The French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was one of the most i...

“The leaves of memory seemed to make a mournful rustling in the dark.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We were looking at some old photo albums...

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!” - James Beard I mus...

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.” - Robert Graves The day today was extremely busy and I wo...

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” – André Gide I had a nightmare last night peopled by strange undersea cr...

“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” - Thomas ...

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.” - John Le Carré We watched a rather puzzling fil...