WAITING An ennobling exercise for the spirits.
WANT Mistress of invention.
WAR a) A hideous and apparently incurable corruption in the body of the mankind.
b) Failure of human wisdom.
WEATHER Something about which everybody talks but does nothing.
WIFE A fair member of the weaker sex whom her male counterpart wants to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness and just stupid enough to admire it.
WINDOW A device for looking through the doors.
WISDOM a) Realization that a child always needs support and freedom.
b) Legitimate child of experience.
WISDOM-TEETH Something that starts coming out the first time you bite off more than you can chew.
WISE-MAN One who constantly wonders afresh.
WISH Desire without deserving.
WIT a) A quick conception and an easy delivery.
b) Noblest frailty of the mind.
c) Salt of conversation.
WOMAN An angel at ten; A saint at fifteen; A devil at forty; A witch at sixty.
WONDER Basis of worship.
WOOD That remarkable material which burns so easily in a forest and with such difficulty in the fire-place.
WORD a)Skin of a living thought.
b) Are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
WORK a) The best way a man has ever invented to escape boredom.
b) The grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
WORLD a) It is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it as such. It is a temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of light and peace yet man disquiteth it.
b) A prison in which we are all serving sentences for things we have done elsewhere.
YAWN A silent shout.
ZEAL Sister of folly when without knowledge.
ZOO A place where we teach animals what behaviour we expect from them.
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