patience like a hen
to hatch it.

PLEASURE. Fun you have to-day so you can worry over it to-morrow.

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POETICAL LICENSE. A woman who weighs 275 pounds and listens to the name
of Birdie.

POLITICS. The place where a man gets it--sometimes in the neck,
sometimes in the bank.

POLITICIAN. The reason we have so much politics.

POPULARITY. The cold storage house where the world sends her favorites
before she forgets them.

POSTERITY. A lot of people who will forget all about you before they are
born.

PRACTICAL JOKE. When Nature makes a pink lobster look like a man.

PREDICTION. A bit of funny business invented by the Weather Man for the
purpose of playing tiddledewinks with the weather. He says what he
thinks it will be and then the weather is what it pleases.

[Illustration]

PROMISE. What a man says to a woman or a child to keep them quiet.

PRUDE. A female lady who wishes someone will say something so she can
blush to listen and listen to blush.

[Illustration: "Q--Young writers Outfit."]

Quitters cannot be trained to quit quitting.

Queer, isn't it, that the lazier a man gets the more he wants to work
somebody else.

Quotation marks cover a multitude of plagiarists.

Qualmless consciences are fashionable nowadays.

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Q: The seventeenth and the most hunted letter in the alphabet, because
it is always followed by u.
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QUACK. A doctor who ducks the law.

QUARREL. Something that shouldn't be picked before it's ripe.

QUART. The amount of wine a sport always wants to open.

QUIRE. A bunch of singers in a church. Sometimes called _Choir_,
sometimes called down. See Scrap, fight, jealousy.

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QUIVER. To shake for the drinks.

QUITTER. A man who stops before he gets started.

[Illustration: "R--The Rolling Stone at the Bottom of the Hill."]

Remember--you can fool some of the people all the time if you care to
spend your money that way.

Reasons may be found for everything except why does a woman get off a
street car backwards.

Race suicide doesn't appeal to poor people.

Rolling stones gather no moss but look at the excitement they have.

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R: The eighteenth letter of the alphabet, used principally to began
a college yell; thus, Rah! Rah! Rah!
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