Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. |
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. |
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. |
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. |
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. |
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. |
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. |
The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured. |
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. |
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. |
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. |
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. |
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. |
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Topics: Art |
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. |
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. |
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. |
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. |
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. |