Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.