Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.