“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer I was in Brisbane for the day today ...

“Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what...

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a ...

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – William Shakespeare One of the s...

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” - Aristotle Onassis What are little girls made of, made of? W...

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker We watched Stephen Gaghan’s 2005 film “Syriana” at...

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” - Dwight D. Eisen...

“To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” - Henri Amiel ...

“We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.” - William Os...

“We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults.  Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” - George...

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” – Oscar Wilde I was reading a friend’s blog today and she mention...

“Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.” - Horace News of the coalmin...

“What is tolerance?  It is the consequence of humanity.  We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other'...

“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” - P.D. James Happy Easter! We hav...

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.  Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi On this Holy Saturday, ...

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” - John Kenneth Galbraith As it is Good Friday today, I thought I’d ...

“All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven his own way.” - Frederick the Great Another long day at work today, but...

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” - Charles Darwin I had a very...

“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” - Alfred North Whitehead The atrociou...

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.” - Mignon McLaughlin Yesterday we watched a rather surprising f...