“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” - Aesop What a day today! We didn’t stop from dawn to dusk as I ha...

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi Some of you may know that Australia is a popular place for i...

“A book that is shut is but a block.” - Thomas Fuller I have blogged before about book burning and it is the topic of today’s blog once...

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” - Voltaire For poetry Wednesday today, an old poem of mine that I ...

“Love’s first snow-drop, virgin kiss.” - Robert Burns The snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis , is the birthday flower for this day, the feast of...

“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?” - Samuel Goldwyn Se...

“Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.” - Henry Van Dyke For Art Sunday today, a flight of fancy or rather a descent into ...

“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, ...