"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish." — Ambrose Bierce

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.