What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

The wife, or bitter half.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.