Category Archives: thought for the day

In DIY, as in life, making a mess is easy. It’s cleaning up the pieces afterwards that is the hard part. Colleen Marples.

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde.

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

If you’re skating on thin ice you may as well dance

Cleanliness is essential when Godliness is improbable.

To respond to violence with violence is to darken a sky already devoid of stars.