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• War may be Hell... but it's good for business.
  -- The Association for Merchants, Manufacturers, and Morticia...
• Government action and inaction both gravely impair business confidence. -- Mark Epernay
• TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
  Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name....
• You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?
  he asked. "Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end...
• The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty ?
  he asked. "Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end...
• When asked for his own [favourite poem], Dylan [Thomas] slowly said, "This is the best poem in the English language," and then repeated gravely and with feeling these line
  I am Thou art He, she, it is We are You are They are....
• CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
  The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden....
• Logicians do it or they do not do it.