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.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

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

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.