OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

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

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.