Saturday, May 26, 2007

DD20. DEFT DEFINITIONS

MODERATION The silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
MODESTY a) Conscience of the body.
b) An ornament which is a guard to virtue.
c) The lowest of the virtues. It is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
d) He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
MONEY a) A remarkable commodity which when you are to required to pay back always seems twice as much as when you borrowed it.
b) The sixth sense that enables the other five to be appreciated.
MONEY-LENDER One who serves us in the present tense, lends us in the conditional mood, keeps us in the subjective and ruins us in the future.
MORALE Self- esteem in action.
MORALITY A private and costly luxury.
MOTHER a) Caretaker of all our domestic needs.
b) Peacemaker between dad and kids.
MOTHERHOOD State of perpetual servitude.
MOTHER-IN-LAW A referee who has an interest in one of the contestants.
MURDERER A type of homo-sapien who does not exist outside the pages of a cheaper kind of thrillers. You are yourself a potential murderer, restrained so far, perhaps, by the lack of a sufficiently strong motive and partly by a healthy fear of what is represented by the representative of the law at the corner of the street.
MUSIC Voice of God.
MYSTERY Wisdom of the blockheads.

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