Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.