Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

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

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.