When In Rome, Do As Rome Does.

Vanity, N. The Tribute Of A Fool To The Worth Of The Nearest Ass.

Children Who Have Proven Themselves To Be Incorrigible By The Age Of Twelve Should Be Quickly And Quietly Beheaded, Lest They Grow To Maturity, Marry, And Perpetuate The Likeness Of Their Being.

Something That Is Supposed To Typify Or Stand For Something Else. Many Symbols Are Mere "survivals" - As Funereal Urns Carved On Memorial Monuments. We Cannot Stop Making Them, But We Can Give Them A Name That Conceals Our Helplessness.

Quotation, N: The Act Of Repeating Erroneously The Words Of Another.

Apothecary, N. The Physician's Accomplice, Undertaker's Benefactor And Grave Worm's Provider