“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.” - Ed...

“I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” - Groucho Marx The Athenaeum Club in Melbourne, situated in t...

“In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.” - George Santayana The Madonna lily , Lilium candidum , is this day’s birthday flower.  It i...

“This is one of the disadvantages of wine:  it makes a man mistake words for thought.” - Samuel Johnson I have had a very long day today...

“It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.” - Mark Twain Today, the United Nations observes World Meteorological D...

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.” - W...

“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel Art Sunday today hi...

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” - H...

“After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.” Emily Luchetti Another busy day...

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” - Herman Melville I had a very busy day at work to...

“For the great Gaels of Ireland / Are the men that God made mad, / For all their wars are merry, / And all their songs are sad.” – G.K. Che...

“A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smoot...

“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.” - Shirley Maclaine We watched a trivial but bubbly, old comed...

“There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.” - N.P. Willis For Art Sunday today, Ver...

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” - Leopold Stokowski Some quintessential musical pas...

“It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.”...

“No good opera plot can be sensible: People do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” - W.H. Auden Last night we went to the Opera and...

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you ...

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” - Francis Bacon I am thankful I ha...

“One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano ; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The d...