A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.