: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder. - C. J. Dennis

To mock the tree-lined highways of our dreaming, Winding to pleasant plains and sunlit hills,
Loud-speakers yet may blare 'mid billboards screaming To hymn the praise of someone’s priceless pills.

Someone has said
From the day we draw breath
Until life be sped
Two things are certain:
Taxes and death.
From the rise of the curtain,
On life's dreary round,
As hope wanes or waxes,
Man ever found
Two things are certain:
Taxes and death—
Especially taxes.

I disapprove of people who moot things.