Exerpts from The Devils Dictionary -Ambrose Bierce 1)April Fool: The March fool with another month added to his folly. 2)Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. 3)Ambidextruous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left 4)Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. 5)Brandy: A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightening, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave, and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. 6)Cat: A soft, indestructable automan provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. 7)Court Fool: The plaintiff. 8)Craft: A fool's substitute for brains. 9)Debt: An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. 10)Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. 11)Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. 12)Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. Like these..Get the book.