DD7. DEFT DEFINITIONS

DEATH a). Good rest nobly earned.
b). Is a law, not a penalty.
c). Happy release of the soul from the body.
d). Ultimate destination of life.
DEBT A trap which a man sets and baits himself.
DECEPTION a). The art of presenting the non-existent.
b). If agreeable is better than a distressing truth.
DECISION Is often the art of being cruel in time.
DEFINITION Setting limits.
DELIGHT For woman to wound man's self-conceit. For man to gratify woman's every whim.
DEMOCRACY a). Worship of the jackals by the jackasses.
b). Bludgeoning of the people, for the people, by the people.
c). Water-logged old scow, it doesn't get far very fast, but then it doesn't sink.
DENTIST A prestidigitator who putting metal into your mouth pulls coins out of your pocket.
DESPAIR a). Conclusion arrived at by fools.
b). Is the damp of hell in contrast to joy which is the serenity of heaven.
DESTINY A series of psychic knots that we tie with our own fears.
DETECTIVE Critic of criminological ways. A smart gentleman who however isalways for all his ingenuity, a step behind the criminal.
DEVIL One who immediately sets an idle man to work.
Agentleman who never goes where he is not wel-come.
DEVOTION Beauty itself, at its best.
DIARY Useful record of our idiosyncrasies.
DICTATORSHIP Is like a beech tree - nice to look at but nothing grows under it.
DIETING a). Losing game.
b). The penalty for exceeding the waist limit.
c). A system of starving yourself to death just so you can live a little longer.
DIFFICULTY a). A mere notice for the necessity for exertion. A bracing of oneself up to meet difficulty in itself is half over-coming it.
b). An excuse that history never accepts.
DIGNITY a). A mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
b). One of the rare things that cannot be preserved in alcohol.
DIPLOMACY a). The art of saying the nastiest things in the nicest way.
b). The ability to take something and act as though you were giving it away.
DIPLOMAT A person who can juggle a potato long enough for it to become a cold issue.
DISAPPOINTMENT Nurse of wisdom.
DISAPPOINTMENTS Things that should be cremated and not embalmed.
DISCRETION a). Salt of life.
b). A comb that experience hands us when we have lost all our hairs.
DISEASE Retribution of outraged nature.
DIVERSITY Your own opinion in a Hall of Mirrors.
DIVORCE Through with love.