A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.