Wednesday, April 25, 2007

DD12. MORE OF DEFT DEFINITIONS

GAMBLING a) Something for nothing.
b) Child of avarice, brother of inequity and father of mischief.
GENIUS 10 percent inspiration and 90 per cent perspiration.
GENIUSNESS Art of doing what is impossible for talent.
GENTLEMAN One who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
GHOST The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
GIRLS They are akin to newspapers. They have forms, they always have the last word; back numbers are not in demand; they have great influence, you can't believe everything they say; they are thinner and costlier than they used to be; they get along by advertising; and every man should have his own and not try to borrow his neighbour's. But they differ in one way, they can't be read through and through.
GLORIOUS MEN Scorn of wise-men, the admiration of fools, the idol of parasites and the slaves of their own vaunts.
GLORY The melancholy blazon on a coffin bed.
GOD Blunder of humanity.
GOOD Final goal of ill.
GOODNESS A noble quality. To teach this quality to others is nobler still, and far less trouble.
GOOD-NIGHT Something which can't be good for lover's if it separates them.
GOSSIP a) Loose talk which no one claims to like but every-body enjoys.
b) When you hear something you like about someone you don't.
c) Mortar in the brick of conversation.
GOVERNMENT Assembly of disgruntled representatives of society, generally speaking.
GOVERNOR A device attached to a state to keep it from going ahead very fast.
GRACE The outward expression of the inward harmony of life.
GRAMMAR Logic of speech.
GRATITUDE a) Memory of the heart.
b) Most humiliating of all debts.
c) A word unfit for use amongst friends.
GREATNESS Not a prize but an achievement.
GREEDINESS Greatest of all human failings.
GRUDGE Aparasitical growth. In its primary stage it is usually benign. Operation is simple, safe and effective. But if you let it eat into you deep enough it becomes inoperable.
GUESTS Members of an objectionable tribe, who have two bad characteristics a ) they do not seem to know enough to go to hotels and b ) they expect to be entertained like royalty.
GUILT Social conditioning.

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