Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

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

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.