“There is a courtesy of the heart; 
it is allied to love. From its 
springs the purest courtesy in the outward behaviour.” - Johann Wolfgan...

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” - Benjamin Franklin Loquat...

“Be obscure clearly.” - E.B. White I mentioned a couple of days ago that I enjoy solving cryptic crosswords and Julia asked what they we...

“I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.” - Comte de Mirabeau Another perfect Summer day again, with beaut...

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.” - Henry David Thoreau We had a wonderfully lazy day today, which was ...

“Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.” -...

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine” - Oliver Goldsmith For Art Sunday today, a...

“Love One Another, As I Have Loved You” John 13:34-35 A very peaceful, quiet day today at home with family. Good food and wine, music, fu...

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” - Charles Dickens The first day of the holidays began today with ...

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” - Arthur C. Clarke Well, today was my last day at work and it was ...

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” - Roy L. Smith Despite the skeleton staff (including me!) around...

“No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.” - Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Today is the Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, ...

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank We watched a stock Hollywo...

“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.” - George Chapman For today’s Art Sunday, 
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), one of the m...

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” - Vincen...

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” – Voltaire Today wa...

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” - Kenji Miyazawa The bad news around the sinking of an illegal boat carrying ...

“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should in...

“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense.  (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid...

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.” - Abraham Lincoln Yesterday we went out briefly in the morning, but we deci...