“Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.” - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) On this day, ...

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical...

“Twill make old women young and fresh, Create new motions of the flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste of choc...

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.” - William Shakespeare The news story that’s presently ...

“In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.” - Nikita Ivanovich Panin I was readi...

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde Have you ever st...

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” - Benjamin Disraeli I had a day trip to Brisbane today, so it was an early ...

“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It...

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” - Chinese Proverb A Greek song tonight from Aristophanes ’...

“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty k...

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus Last Friday night a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Gee...

“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen A poem tonight which is transcribed from an old journal I u...

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.” - Arthur C. Clarke Tonight, I turn my eyes to the heavens as ther...

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.” – Juvenal We watched Gérard Corbieau’s 1989 film “Le Maître de Musique” ...

“Earth laughs in flowers.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson For Art Sunday today, a linocut print by a contemporary Australian artist, Vida Pearson . S...

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” - Gustav Mahler Tonight I feel I need t...

“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.” - Joe Paterno I suppose it would be rem...

“If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.” - Mignon McLaughlin I had an extremely...

“Time is the fire in which we burn.” - Delmore Schwartz Time is an elastic concept. It’s made of mist and moonbeams, sunrays and shadows. Ti...

“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” - Pablo Casals Happy Bastille Day! July the 14th i...