Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.