Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.