Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.