Exuberance is beauty. ~ William Blake

'The Octopus' Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octopus If I were thou, I'd call me Us. -- Ogden Nash

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~ William Blake

The Middle East is certainly the nexus of turmoil for a long time to come -- with shifting players, but the same game: upheaval. I think we will be confronting militant Islam -- particularly fallout from the Iranian revolution -- and religion will once more, as it has in our own more distant past -- play a role at least as standard-bearer in death and mayhem. - Bobby R. Inman, Admiral, USN, Retired, former director of Naval Intelligence, vice director of the DIA, former director of the NSA, deputy director of Central Intelligence, former chairman and CEO of MCC.

I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just leased a pot roast with an option to buy.

The many do not take heed of such things as those they meet with, nor do they recognize them when they are taught, though they think they do ~ Heraclitus, Fragments

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Talking about a piece of movie dialogue: Let's have some new cliches. -Samuel Goldwyn

Centre Piece Imagine a life. Live it. 2003 Torna Haellestad, Sweden ~ Ken Friedman

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Sextus Aurelius

Plants are shaped by cultivation , and men by education . Rousseau

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. ~ Michele de Montaigne

"SubGenius is the link between revolution and evolution." ~ Batrix

A prominent broadcaster, on a big-game safari in Africa, was taken to a watering hole where the life of the jungle could be observed. As he looked down from his tree platform and described the scene into his tape recorder, he saw two gnus grazing peacefully. So preoccupied were they that they failed to observe the approach of a pride of lions led by two magnificent specimens, obviously the leaders. The lions charged, killed the gnus, and dragged them into the bushes where their feasting could not be seen. A little while later the two kings of the jungle emerged and the radioman recorded on his tape: "Well, that's the end of the gnus and here, once again, are the head lions."

There's no use in having a dog and doing your own barking.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday. Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique... -- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. -- Marcel Duchamp

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying. -Samuel Goldwyn

Coach: What would you say to a beer, Normie? Norm: Daddy wuvs you. -- Cheers, The Mail Goes to Jail Sam: What'd you like, Normie? Norm: A reason to live. Gimme another beer. -- Cheers, Behind Every Great Man Sam: What will you have, Norm? Norm: Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap. Sam: Oh, looks like beer, Norm. Norm: Call me Mister Lucky. -- Cheers, The Executive's Executioner

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca