CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

Woman absent is woman dead.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.