Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

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