“He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The United Nations (UN) Internat...

“Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.” - English Proverb The addiction of people to junk food and obesity is one of the n...

“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” - German Proverb Today for those of the Greek Orthodox faith it is “Pork Thursday” or Tsi...

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire Love can be such difficult emotion to describe, especially...

“I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night” – Galileo Galilei Have you ever stood beneath a clear night sky out in the ...

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” - e.e. cummings At the weekend we watched a British comedy series on DVD. We certainl...

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien For Art Sunday today, a painting from the Art Gallery of South Australia, which I saw ...

“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.” - Robert Browning Happy Valentines’ Day!

“Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.” – Ovid On Valentine’s Eve , lots were drawn for Valentines in Northern England and Southern Scotlan...

“Optimism is the foundation of courage.” - Nicholas Murray Butler We are thankful today as the weather has been kind the last few days and t...

“We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus The bushfires continue to burn and threaten more townships, de...

“Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.” - George Bernard Shaw The immensity...

“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.” - Thomas Carlyle The magnitude of the bushfire tragedy is ...

“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.” - Voltaire Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement” fresco in ...

“Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.” - Horace
 The heat has been stifling today, with Melbourne recor...

“May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.” - Irish Blessing I have just returned from Adelaide where I was for work and f...

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” - Benjamin Franklin Jan Elle, through Jacqui has completed a meme that relates to s...

“It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick I spoke to a f...

“To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” - Ben Jonson The last couple of days I have been taking...

“To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” - William Shakespeare Abbas ...