There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.