"We'll call him Cacodemon, with his black Gib there, his Succuba, his 
Devil's Seed, his Spawn of Phlegethon, that o' my Conſience was bred 
o' the Spume of Cocytus."
    -John Fletcher, _The Knight of Malta_.  1647.

"Hoc idem magis ostendit antiquius Iovis nomen: nam olim Diovis et Diespiter dictus, id est dies pater; a quo dei dicti qui inde, et dius et divum, unde sub divo, Dius Fidius. Itaque inde eius perforatum tectum, ut ea videatur divum, id est caelum. Quidam negant sub tecto per hunc deierare oportere. Aelius Dium Fidium dicebat Diovis filium, ut Graeci Dioskopon Castorem, et putabat hunc esse Sancum ab Sabina lingua et Herculem a Graeca. Idem hic Dis pater dicitur infimus, qui est coniunctus terrae, ubi omnia ut oriuntur ita aboriuntur; quorum quod finis ortuum, Orcus dictus."
	-Marcus Terentius Varro, _De Lingua Latina_, Liber V, circa 40 BC.

A huge, three-headed, winged arch-demon, guardian of the gates of Hell.

A huge, winged arch-demon, guardian of the gates of Hell.

"Khrysaor, married to Kallirhoe, daughter of glorious Okeanos, was father to the
triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Herakles at
sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Herakles drove
those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and
had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous 
Okeanos."
	-Hesiod, _Theogony_, circa 700 BCE.

"He saith that Tiamat our mother hath conceived a hatred for us,
With all her force she rageth, full of wrath.
All the gods have turned to her,
With those, whom ye created, they go at her side.
They are banded together, and at the side of Tiamat they advance;
They are furious, they devise mischief without resting night and day.
They prepare for battle, fuming and raging;
They have joined their forces and are making war.
Tiamat who formed all things,
Made in addition weapons invincible; she spawned monster-serpents,
Sharp of tooth, and merciless of fang;
With poison, instead of blood, she filled their bodies.
Fierce monster-vipers she clothed with terror,
With splendor she decked them, she made them of lofty stature.
Whoever beheld them, terror overcame him,
Their bodies reared up and none could withstand their attack."
	-Enuma Elish, Third Tablet. circa 668 BCE.

"How doth the little busy Bee 
     Improve each shining Hour, 
And gather Honey all the day 
     From every opening Flower!"
	-Isaac Watts.  1715.

"In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, 'Is it good, friend?'
'It is bitter - bitter', he answered,
'But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.'"
	-Stephen Crane, _The Black Riders and Other Lines_.  1895.

A remarkably nondescript person.  How odd!

A remarkably nondescript person.  How odd.
"Do you know
 Do I know
 What's this thing called 'man'?
 God only knows what a man is!
 I only know his price."
	-Bertolt Brecht, "The Measures Taken". 1930. 

"Know thyself."
	-Inscription in the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi	

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"
	-Gerald Weinberg, Weinberg's Second Law

How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!

"How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"

  <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYEAAAAYAAJ&dq=apricot+date:1000-1800&lr=&pg=RA1-PA203&ci=46,134,779,604&source=bookclip">The Compleat City and Country Cook Or, Accomplish'd House-wife. Containing, Several Hundred of the Most Approv'd Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Cordials [etc.] ... Illustrated with Forty-nine Large Copper Plates, Directing the Regular Placing the Various Dishes on the Table ... Also, Bills of Fare According to the Several Seasons for Every Month of the Year ... By Charles Carter</a>

A book of magic spells. Beware, for some of the more powerful
grimoires are not to be toyed with.

A book of magic spells. Unlike most of the other grimoires, 
this one can be toyed with.

  <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xJMEAAAAYAAJ&dq=orange+date:1000-1800&lr=&pg=PA292&ci=89,879,795,332&source=bookclip">The Universal Cook And City and Country Housekeeper By Francis Collingwood,  John Woollams</a>

"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
	-Dante Alighieri, _Divina Commedia_, "L'Inferno", Canto III.
	circa 1315.

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
	-Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias".  1818.

An entrance to the Temple of the Gods, a place of peace and refuge

An entrance to the Temple of the Gods, a place of peace, and a refuge