“I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With...

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.” - Rudyard Kipling I am very mu...

“Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.” - Horace I was in Sydney for th...

“Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears B...

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” - Françoise de Motteville I was in Adelaide for wo...

“A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against othe...

“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room...

“And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal awa...

“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of th...

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” - Eartha Kitt Are you a person who multi-tasks? Typically, it is said, wome...

“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Mining the archives of old notebooks, I...

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” - Saint Basil A stor...

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old ...

“A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.” - Robert Herrick The devastating fires in Attica, Greece , just to the north of Athens have been bu...

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E...

“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.” - Mary Kay Ash I was in Brisbane for work today. A very early flight i...

“Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in hea...

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the...

“As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.” - Antisthenes Today is the birthday of: Virginia Dare , first American-born...

“Humour is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: An awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kin...