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

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day..

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set..

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

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly..

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it..

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are comm….

CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns..

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows..

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season..

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of anoth….

Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a footh….

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose….

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get..

When in Rome, do as Rome does..

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read..

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy..

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts..

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things..

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does..

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow..