Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1842 Death: 1914
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment..
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves..
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it..
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary….
A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create s….
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass..
Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it..
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance..
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in ro….
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue..
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two va….
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity..
A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples..
NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it..
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders..
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises..
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself..
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in ….
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitternes….
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last….