popularity

Husband to his wife: "I know you've been a model wife, but it's been a long time since your model was popular."

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.