RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

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

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.