RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.