A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.