“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and t...

“I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valen...

“We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.” – Voltaire   Today is the anniversary of the birthday of: Peter the Gre...

“Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.” - Alfred Russel Wallace  ...

“Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.” - Alexander Pope   An image (“Ponytail” by Las...

“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” - Confucius   Since ancient times, fairy tales have served a ver...

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” - William Shakespeare   Bernaert (or Bernard, or Ba...

“The purpose of labour is to gain leisure.” - Aristotle   A very busy Saturday filled with the usual chores, and unending domestic dutie...

“Lentils are friendly - the ‘Miss Congeniality’ of the bean world.” - Laurie Colwin   As we are progressing into Winter here in the Sout...

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.” - Sophocles   I was taking a walk early this morning before going to work and in the ...

“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.” - Richard Wagner   It is the Richard Wagner bicentennial this year. Germany toda...

“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.” - Andrew Mason   Taraxacum officinale , the common dandelion...

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” - Josh Billings   It is not often that we watch a film that has the Best Film Oscar i...

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - Gilb...

“Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.” - H. P. Lovecraft   Well, another Eurovision contest is over with Denmark ga...

“When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that foo...

“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” – Aristotle   The central business district of Perth is bounded by the Swan...

“If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca   Fremantle, in Western Australia, is a...

“No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang   I am in...

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.” Henri Frederic Amiel   At the weekend we wa...