Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.