“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit” - Jeremy Taylor It was a freezing night last night and ano...

“Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!” - Lewis Carroll   Well I hope you celebrated the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the so-called “...

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” - H. G. Wells   I have been following the news of the terrible situation in Syria, which has ...

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” - Benjamin Franklin Happy Independen...

“Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act 5, Scene 1 Mag...

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)  it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” - E. E. Cummings   We watched a Hollywood pulp fi...

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast” – Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)   For Art Su...

“Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.” - William Shakespeare ...

“Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more.” - John Walters   I have been attending a conference for work a...

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” - Michael Jordan It is now several weeks that I am at my new j...

“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf” - Mark Twain   The fig tree, Ficus carica , is...

“Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder” - Octave Mirbeau   “Touch of Evil” is a classic, Orson Well...

“The final mystery is oneself.” - Oscar Wilde   When I was young I remember reading the Superman comics avidly and enjoying this partic...

“Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally e...

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” - Ralph Wa...

“I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; ...

“Every mile is two in winter” - George Herbert The Winter solstice is the time at which the Sun is appearing at...

“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Last night in Melbourne at 8:54 pm we felt an earth tr...

“He does not weep who does not see” - Victor Hugo After a break from the Magpie Tales meme , I return this week with an offering that i...

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis   We watched yet another “chick flick” at the weekend...