“He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.” - Robert Browning It has been a rather difficult week. Now, as the first month of ...

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” - Russell Baker
 Today, the thermometer showed 43.1˚C at 4:30 pm. Melbourne...

“What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?” - Alan Paton Horrific news from all over the world continues to filter th...

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer Memories define who we are, can influence our actions, ma...

“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts” – Henry Fielding Today marks the anniversary of the ...

“Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug” - Geoffrey Blainey Happy Australia Day, Australia! Happy Republic Day, India! Ja...

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” - John Ruskin It’s been a stressful day today with some si...

“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, ...