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• A wizard is only as good as his spells," people will often say.
  It is telling however, that this statement is only made by people who have never been wizards themselves....
• BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
  Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....
• TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm.
  It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics....
• INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for wherea
  aith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and divers way to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter....
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have
  as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like....
• WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
  The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light....
• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
  Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts....
• KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
  A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jeste...