“Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Andersen   Antonio Maria Bononcini (18 June 1677 – 8 July 1726) was an Italian celli...

“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” - Benjamin Franklin   After the culinary excesses of Christmas it is a good id...

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” - Willi...

“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.” - E. B. White   It’s Christmas Day and there is a...

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.” - Dr Seuss   Today is Christmas Eve. It is the anniversary of the...

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete…” - C. S. Lewis   We watched the Dustin Hoffman 2012 fi...

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.” - Henry Miller   Cesar Santos (born 1982) is a Cuban-America...

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms ...

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer   Lentil Pie Ingredients...

“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” - Alan Watts   The ancient Greeks had several different theori...

“People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.” Rober...

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” - Judy Garland   Poetry Jam ...

“Supernatural, perhaps; baloney, perhaps not.” – Bela Lugosi (‘The Black Cat’, 1934)   Hammer Films is a film production company based i...

“Colour possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Colour and...

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” - Samuel Butler   For Music Saturday, Pietro ...

“If God hadn’t meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.” - Ralph Nader   A little bit of whimsy for Food Frida...

For the Festive Season.

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.” - Mahatma Gandhi   Today is Mex...

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” - Roy L. Smith   This week, Poetry Jam has urged followers to...

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” - Nelson Mandela   The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10 Decem...