“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” - John Barrymore January is nearly over, one twelfth of the new year is alread...

“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.” - Ovid Had a full and busy day at work again today with nume...

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not mer...

“Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What causes us to fall in love? A vexed question, because ...

“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other...

“Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certai...

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” - Euripides For Art Sunday today, a painting by an American contempo...

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” - Kenji Miyazawa I watched a video on the news this morning that coloured al...

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” - Robert Frost Another very bus...

“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.” - Rabindranath Tagore Today is the feast day of St Agnes , who was held in ...

“The past is not a package one can lay away.” - Emily Dickinson Readers of this blog may remember me mentioning on a couple of occasion...

“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” - William Shakespeare At the weekend, there was a horrific fatal car crash i...

“Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.” - Lord Raglan We wanted some pure escapist nonsense on Sunday afternoon, ...

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” - Edvard Munch Pablo Picasso for Art Sunday today. His...

“The keenest sorrow is to recognise ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” – Sophocles The devastation left behind the ear...

“This is every cook's opinion -
no savoury dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled, your onions must be fully ...

“Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.” - Georg Groddeck The catastrophic earthquake in Haiti is dominating our news bulletins ...

“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble;...

“There is no such cosy combination as man and wife.” – Menander You know about the musical, “My Fair Lady”, don’t you? It was even made ...

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” - Lesley P. Hartley We watched a classic old movie yesterday, the 1957...