WINE: An infallible antidote to commonsense and seriousness; an excuse for deeds otherwise unforgivable.
WISDOM: A term Pride uses when talking of Necessity.
WISE MAN: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
WIT: The thing that fractures many a friendship.
WOMAN: 1. The First Cause. 2. A being created for the purpose of voting. 3. Any one with an allowance that is occasionally paid, but which can't be collected. 4. A pet, a plaything, a scullion, a thing to die for, or a thing to kill. 5. A being to get rid of or to secure--to run away from, or with, as the case may be. 6. Among the Ancients, a slave, a chattel; among the Moderns, a financial swashbuckler. Synonyms: sphinx, devil, angel, liar, spendthrift.
WAR: The sure result of the existence of armed men.
WE: The smear of life against the radiant _x_.
WORDS: The airy, fairy humming-birds of the imagination.
WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM): The only Lilliputian that slipped under the canvas into Olympus.
WORK: 1. That which keeps us out of trouble. 2. A plan of God to circumvent the Devil.
WORMS: 1. The final word in criticism. 2. At the last analysis.
WORRY: Ironic nurse to old bedridden Dame Care. _E. g._, "I should worry"--famous saying of the Infinite Nix at twelve o'clock Saturday night of the Sixth Day as he threw down his tools and sent the Earth about its business.
YESTERDAY: 1. One evil less and one memory more. 2. A short-change artist, from whom we can never recover. 3. A period of time that has always existed, in contradistinction to a period of time called tomorrow that can never exist. 4. A mirror wherein if we look long enough we will see ourselves as others could never possibly see us. 5. The Eden of the sentimental. (Time is divided into yesterday, today and tomorrow, which are but three varieties of the same metaphysical tetter. In the beginning was the Infinite, and the Infinite begat Time, and Time begat Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.)
YOUR DUTY: The things you have to do, and not a damn tap more. The other man's duty is the thing you think he should do.
YOURS: Anything which up to the present time the bunch has not been able to get away from you.
ZODIAC: 1. The wallpaper of the heavens. 2. The mirrors of the nothingness of Man and the sublimity of the nothingness of Space.