Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .