“Sweet childish days, that were as long
 as twenty days are now…” - William Wordsworth I was out driving this afternoon whilst going out ...

“How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.” - Benjamin Disraeli Today we had a salad that was made only from produc...

“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.” - Aldous Hux...

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” - William Blake The first day of winter Downunder started frostily this morning ...

“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.” - Oliver ...

 “A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof...

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” - Honoré De Balzac At the weekend we watched M...

“Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.” - Ernst Levy A still life is a work of ...

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” - Sergei Rachmaninov A very restful day today, with a relatively...

“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” - Winston Churchill Tell ...

“The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.” - Leon Uris Today is National Sorry Day , which...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”...

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” - Catherine II The USA has been having a hard time lately, what with the...

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” - Jane Austen This is going to be another non-movie Monday as we spent the day ...

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” - Mark Twain ...

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu A very busy day at the conference today, with many intere...

“I support any initiative designed to make healthy food more affordable and junk food less appealing.” - Susan Burke A long day of travel...

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – William Shakespeare ; Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5...

“I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?” -...

“I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it’s contributed to better health care, that it’s contributed ...