OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.