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• pessimist: A man who spends all his time worrying about how he can keep the wolf from the door.
  optimist: A man who refuses to see the wolf until he seizes the seat of his pants....
• WOLF: A man who knows all the ankles.
• A man works hard to keep the wolf from the door. Then his daughter grows up and brings one home.
• Even a man who is pure at heart, And says his prayers at night Can become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the moon is full and bright.
  -- The Wolf Man, 1941...
• WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man.
  All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh....
• A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.