“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” - Johann Sebastian Bach   For Music Saturda...

“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 v...

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mand...

“More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.” - Fidel Castro   Magpie...

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” - Susan Sontag   Brisbane is the port and the capital city of Queensland, Australia, a...

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” - J ean Racine   I have been extremely busy with work, hence this belated Movie Monday...

“The main facts in human life are five: Birth, food, sleep, love and death.” - E. M. Forster   Evelyn Pickering (1855-1919) was born in ...

“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...