You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.

ABDOMEN, n. [1.] The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous. [2.] A shrine enclosing the object.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.