Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.