Beneath a precipice, that fronts the wave, / with limpid springs inside, and many a seat / of living marble, lies a sheltered cave, / home of the Sea-Nymphs. In this haven sweet / cable nor biting anchor moors the fleet.

Life is fleeting.

Algeria has the capacity to expand its fleet.

Even if it is as fleeting as a scent or as quick as a thought, there is always a way to get what you desire.

How fleetly in my damage cruel Fortune has changed!

And in the cloud unseen, / wrapt in its hollow covering, they abide / and note what fortune did their friends betide, / and whence they come, and why for grace they sue, / and on what shore they left the fleet to bide, / for chosen captains came from every crew, / and towards the sacred fane with clamorous cries they drew.

Grant us to draw our scattered fleet ashore, / and fit new planks and branches for the oar. / So, if with king and comrades brought again, / the Fates allow us to reach Italia's shore, / Italia gladly and the Latian plain / seek we."

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

A fleet of alien communists has arrived looking for somebody named Posadas.