“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation...

“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for des...

“My heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, was released from the fermentation of sensuality, released from the fermentation of becoming, re...

“Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.” - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker It’s Internat...

“One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.” - W. H. Auden The image today that Magpie Tales has...

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dess...

“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sens...

“For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death” - John Oxenham (William Arthur Dunkerley) For Song ...

“Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death ...

“We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety” ...

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” - Henry Ford November 30th ...

“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that...

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.” - Kurt Co...

“Every painter has been guilty of wanting to portray a moment in nature instead of realising that a simple luminous arrangement would put t...

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place” - C.S. Lewis Robert is hosting a Psalm Sunday meme an...

“Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.”  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It’s been a very rainy Saturday in M...

“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” - Richard M. Sherman I was at a conference again today and it was good to see that...

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Ken...

“A man without a mustache is like a cup of tea without sugar” - English Proverb The last two days have been a great rush at work as we we...

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.” - James Earl Jones To love we have to make ou...