“Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.” - Alan Furst   As w...

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I kno...

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

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” - Aeschylus   Magpie Tales has provided us with a photograph, “Univ...

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” - Laozi   When one travels the routine is disrupted and one’s schedule is thrown somew...

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles M. Schulz   I am in Per...

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” - Oscar Wilde   For Art Sunday today,...

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” - William Shakespeare   For Music Saturday, a blast ...

“The wish for healing has always been half of health.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca   It is the Winter Solstice today in the Southern Hemisph...

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force ...

“For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.” - Nick Vujicic   I came ac...

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” - Henry David Thoreau   A Marc Chagall painting, “The Promenade” ( La promenade ), of 1...

“My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.” - William Allen White   Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a far...

“Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.” - James Galway   Severio Mercadante was a prolific composer of opera during the ni...

“Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.” Bobby Flay   Veg...

“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.” - Thomas Huxley   The global financial crisis is a fact and many co...

“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.” - Thucydides   Today is the anniversary of the birthday of: Johann G...

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes   Magpie Tales has provided the image above. Follo...

“Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.” - Lao Tzu   There have been some wonderful films out of the Scandinavi...

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” - Maya A...