Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.