“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” - Charles Dickens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens   A Satur...

“Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.” - Gordon Ramsay   ...

“Miracles are not impossible from a logical standpoint, and right reason does not deny them. Natural laws do not have the claim to be the...

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato   The day s...

“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up to and outpace.” Ovid   Australians certainly love sport and althou...

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that diffe...

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.” - John Ruskin For Art Sunday today, Henri-Émile-Benoît Mati...

“They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For music Saturday today...

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” - C.S. Lewis The old English custom of “soul-caking”, or “souling”, origin...

“Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultiva...

“I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.” Arthur Freed   Magpie Tales has...

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?” - Benjamin Disraeli   I am away from home at an intensive residential workshop for...

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” - Kahlil Gibran This morning it looked as Winter ha...

“Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavourful than before.” - Marilyn vos Savant An intere...

“Believers, Jews, Sabaeans or Christians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does what is right - shall have nothing to fear o...

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” - Matthew 5:9, New Testament, KJV   The United Nations (UN)...

“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” - Seneca   Magpie Tales has become lured ...

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition” - Timothy Leary Pope Joan (Johanna), according to legend, was a female Pope who supp...

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” - Le Corbusier   The Sydney Opera House (b...

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” – Ovid   A lovely Saturday, although quite hectic! The usual chores and sho...