“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.” - Pierre Corneille I am in a rather melancholy mood tonight and usually Bach is what ...

“If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.” - Terri Guillemets Our orange tree is laden with wonderful, ripe, brigh...

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only dif...

“Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.” – Montesquieu It is Bastille Day today, the National Day of France. Fran...

“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed” - Rabindranath Tagore Obon is one of the most important cultural...

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope alwa...

“I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have...

“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.” – Herodotus A delicious song from Song Saturday from the pen of Hector Berlioz, being...

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!” - James Beard I lov...

“History is philosophy teaching by examples.” - Thucydides I am preparing seven lectures that I shall record for our online learning stud...

“A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and ...

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” - Mark Twain I was going to work this morning and was nearly run down by a bicycle...

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” - Benjamin Franklin We watched a really tras...

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” - Albert Camus Happy Fourth of July to my American friends and readers of this blog in th...

“Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.” - W.H. Auden Another difficult and busy week is over...

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:  it is the time...

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must b...

“Hard work spotlights the character of people:  some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.” -...

“Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.” - John Moffat After fixing my computer problems today (it’s handy having a good computer s...

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