Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.