A gentle quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'i would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'
A happy arrangement many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
A stranger asked a brahmana, "tell me, who is great in this city?" the brahmana replied, "the cluster of palmyra trees is great." then the traveller asked, "who is the most charitable person?" the brahmana answered, "the washerman who takes the clothes in the morning and gives them back in the evening is the most charitable." he then asked, "who is the ablest man?" the brahmana answered, "everyone is expert in robbing others of their wives and wealth." the man then asked the brahmana, "how do you manage to live in such a city?" the brahmana replied, "as a worm survives while even in a filthy place so do I survive here!"