DD25. DEFT DEFINITIONS

QUALITY a) The best is cheapest.
b) Signature of excellence.
QUOTATIONS Short sentences based on long experience.
REACTIONARY A somnambulist walking backwards.
REALITY Not what you feel, but how you feel.
REASON a) Every why hath a wherefore.
b) A cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
REBELLION Medicine necessary for the sound health of the government.
REGRET It might have been !
REJUVENATION One step backwards in order to take a better leap.
RELATIVITY That hour, which when you are courting a nice girl, seems like a second, while on the other hand, when you sit on a red-hot cinder, it is the second that seems like an hour.
RELIGION a) Opium of the people.
b) Tries to explain the nature of the unknowable.
c) Root cause of all serious conflicts.
d) A daughter of hope and fear explaining to the ignorant the nature of the unknowable.
e) Something men wrangle about, write about, fight about, die for, do anything but live it.
REMEMBERANCE A form of meeting.
REPENTANCE Promise made and kept to do something no more.
REPUTATION An enviable possession so long has one does not have to live up to it.
RESEARCHER He sees what everyone sees, but he thinks what none of us thought.
RESPECT A state of mind forced upon children by their parents, it becomes a habit, in due course of time, and sticks.
REVOLUTION A successful effort to get rid of an existing bad government and its replacement by a worse one.
RHETORIC Art of ruling the minds of men.
RIDICULE Evidence of wit or bitterness which gratifies a little mind or an ungenerous temper but is no test of reason or truth.
RING (WEDDING) The smallest hand-cuffs known to homo-sapiens and generally willingly É..
RITUALS Some tangible thing that adds beauty to worship and bears testimony to splendour and the majesty of God.
ROBOT An industrial worker with a lot of brain but without intelligence.
ROMANCE a) Dance-tune.
b) Romance is to love what a picnic is to the business of eating.
RUDENESS Weak man's imitation of strength.