“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” - German Proverb The closer we get to Christmas the more frenetic the pace and the more things ...

“No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.” - Desiderius Erasmus Today was my last day at work before the Christmas/New Year holid...

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.” - Robert Louis Stevenson I am reading a book by Tony Th...

“Summer has set in with its usual severity.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge The sun beat down in the city today and the predicted temperature...

“Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.” - Alexandre Dumas fils For today’s...

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” - Eliz...

“Great art picks up where nature ends.” - Marc Chagall For Art Sunday today, Marc Chagall (1887-1985).  He was born in Vitebsk, Byeloru...

“I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.” - Arthur Wing Pinero I’m feeling a little flat tonight. Las...

“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.” - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Pre-Christmas parties are notorious in the ...

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” – Gautama Buddha The festival of the Hanukkah is ...

“An old man in love is like a flower in winter.” - Portuguese Proverb I am mindful of the Northern Hemisphere Winter approaching, being ...

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” - C.P. Snow You ...

“Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: Lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.” - Mignon McLaughlin At the w...

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.” - Amanda Bradley Today is ...

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different ...

“All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven his own way.” - Frederick the Great December 4th is St Barbara’s Feast...

“Feast, n: A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person dis...

“Freedom is never given; it is won.” - A. Philip Randolp h The United Nations has established December 2nd as the International Day for ...

“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.” - Elizabeth Taylor The World Health Organisation ha...

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake At the weekend we watched an old film about...