“There are two great days in a person’s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.” - William Barclay   N icola (Nicolò) F...

“Wilful waste makes woeful want.” – English proverb Do you have some cream that has been in your fridge a few days past its use-by date...

“Nationalism: The curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.”― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewsky Welcome...

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” - Terry Pratchett   Bastet was a goddess in ancient Egy...

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Иванов; 1864-1...

“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts—such is the duty of the artist.” - Robert Schumann   Marco Uccellini (Forlimpopoli, F...

“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.” - W. C. Fields   We made some savoury crackers today as we...

“Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers an...

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” - Jane Austen   Welcome to the Travel Tuesda...

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” - Winston Churchill   Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk,...

“A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.” - Herodotus   Antonio Sal...

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

“Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that’s a good thing - they keep it very real.” - Nik Kershaw   Welcome to the Travel Tuesday...

“Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.   Ivan Ivanovich Godlevsky (Russian: Иван Ива...

“Musicians own music because music owns them.” - Virgil Thomson   Johann Vierdanck (also: Virdanck, Vyrdanck, Feyertagk, Feyerdank, Fi...