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Theosophy at large (III)

Sep 04, 2004 03:47 PM
by Pedro Oliveira


(From the "Cynic's Dictionary". Sources: 'Tin Trumpet'
by Horace Smith and 'The Cynic's Word-book' by Ambrose
Pierce.)


Congratulation: the civility of envy.

Friendless: having no favours to bestow; destitute of
fortune; addicted to utterance of truth and common
sense.

Incompatibility: in matrimony, a similarity of tastes,
particularly the taste for domination.

Fool: an officer who is honest.

Physician: the messenger of death; an executioner.

Ill Man: the slate on which the physician learns his
alphabet.

Bribe: the resource of those whose cause is lame.

Stupidity: regarding one's self as wiser than the
rest. 



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