PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.