The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

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