Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.