“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” - Oliver Wendell Holmes For Song Saturday, a beautiful song by Lucio...

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.” - Bertrand Russell The Mojito is a Cuban cocktail that has rum as its base and is flavoured with mint an...

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei Mullein , Verbascum nigrum , is today’s birthday plant. It symbolises nature a...

“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” – Alphonse de Lamartine A poem that was written quite a few year...

“Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all.” – Vachel Lindsay The inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama is making headlines around t...

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” - Simone Sig...

“A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” T. Arnold Haultain “Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars” by John Gr...

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese Nostalgia again today for Song Saturday. Silvana Mangano was one of the grea...

“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.” - Cicero I was speaking to a family friend the other day and...

“One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.” - Molière Today is the anniversary of the birth of J...

“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.” - Albert Schweitzer Each day I commute to work on the train. In the City around th...

“A ‘sin’ is something which is not necessary.” George Gurdjieff It is the anniversary of the birth of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff today. Gur...

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” - Mark Twain If you had a choice, ...

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” - John Dryden For Art Sunday today, a painting by Edgar Degas (born July 19, 1834, Paris; died, Sept. 2...

“Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.” - Robert Burns It’s 11:30 pm and I’m looking out of the window at the moon, which is nearly full....

“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.” - José Simons Avocadoes are in season here at the moment and they are a very versatile fruit/ve...

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” - Oscar Wilde Thomas Beatie , the “pregnant ma...

“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” - Mark Twain The more I listen to the news the more d...

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” - Rabindranath Tagore January 6th is celebrated in the Weste...

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.” - John Greenleaf Whittier For Movie Monday today, a film we watched some months ...