OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.