21.
”There just is not any justice in this world,” said Mulla Nasrudin to a friend. ”I used to be a 97-pound
weakling, and whenever I went to the beach with my girl, this big 197-pound bully came over and
kicked sand in my face. I decided to do something about it, so I took a weight-lifting course and after
a while I weighed 197 pounds.”
”So what happened?” his friend asked.
”WELL, AFTER THAT,” said Nasrudin, ”WHENEVER I WENT TO THE BEACH WITH MY GIRL, A
257-POUND BULLY KICKED SAND IN MY FACE.”

22.
”Dorothy, your boyfriend, Mulla Nasrudin, seems very bashful,” said Mama to her daughter.
”Bashful!” echoed the daughter, ”bashful is no name for it.”
”Why don’t you encourage him a little more? Some men have to be taught how to do their courting.
He’s a good catch.”
”Encourage him!” said the daughter, ”he cannot take the most palpable hint. Why, only last night
when I sat all alone on the sofa, he perched up in a chair as far away as he could get. I asked him
if he didn’t think it strange that a man’s arm and a woman’s waist seemed always to be the same
length, and what do you think he did?”
”Why, just what any sensible man would have done – tried it.”
”NO,” said the daughter. ”HE ASKED ME IF I COULD FIND A PIECE OF STRING SO WE COULD
MEASURE AND SEE IF IT WAS SO.”

23.
”Did you know I am a hero?” said Mulla Nasrudin to his friends in the teahouse.
”How come you’re a hero?” asked someone.
”Well, it was my girlfriend’s birthday,” said the Mulla, ”and she said if I ever brought her a gift she
would just drop dead in sheer joy. So, I DIDN’T BUY HER ANY AND SAVED HER LIFE.”

24.
Mulla Nasrudin finally spoke to his girlfriend’s father about marrying his daughter.
”It’s a mere formality, I know,” said the Mulla, ”but we thought you would be pleased if I asked.”
”And where did you get the idea,” her father asked, ”that asking my consent to the marriage was a
mere formality?”
”NATURALLY, FROM YOUR WIFE, SIR,” said Nasrudin.

25.
Mulla Nasrudin, a party to a suit, was obliged to return home before the jury had brought in its
verdict.
When the case was decided in Nasrudin’s favour, his lawyer wired him: ”RIGHT AND JUSTICE
WON.”
To which the Mulla replied immediately: ”APPEAL AT ONCE.”

26.
Mulla Nasrudin had knocked down a woman pedes-trian, and the traffic cop on the corner began to
bawl him out, yelling, ”You must be blind!”
”What’s the matter with you,” Nasrudin yelled back.
”I HIT HER, DIDN’T I?”

27.
Mulla Nasrudin, disturbed by the way his taxi driver was whizzing around corners, finally said to him,
”WHY DON’T YOU DO WHAT I DO WHEN I TURN CORNERS – I JUST SHUT MY EYES.”

28.
Mulla Nasrudin stood quietly at the bedside of his dying father. ”Please, my boy,” whispered the old
man, ”always remember that wealth does not bring happiness.”
”YES, FATHER,” said Nasrudin, ”I REALIZE THAT BUT AT LEAST IT WILL ALLOWME TO CHOOSE
THE KIND OF MISERY I FIND MOST AGREEABLE.”

29.
One philosopher said in the teahouse one day: ”If you will give me Aristotle’s system of logic, I will
force my enemy to a conclusion; give me the syllogism, and that is all I ask.”
Another philosopher replied: ”If you give me the Socratic system of interrogatory, I will run my
adversary into a corner.”
Mulla Nasrudin hearing all this said: ”MY BRETHREN, IF YOU WILL GIVE ME A LITTLE READY
CASH, I WILL ALWAYS GAIN MY POINT. I WILL ALWAYS DRIVE MY ADVERSARY TO A
CONCLUSION. BECAUSE A LITTLE READY CASH IS A WONDERFUL CLEARER OF THE
INTELLECT.”

30.
Mulla Nasrudin, hard of hearing, went to the doctor.
”Do you smoke?”
”Yes.”
”Much?”
”Sure, all the time.”
”Drink?”
”Yes, just about anything at all. Any time, too.”
”What about late hours? And girls, do you chase them?”
”Sure thing; I live it up whenever I get the chance.” ”Well, you will have to cut out all that.”
”JUST TO HEAR BETTER? NO THANKS,” said Nasrudin, as he walked out of the doctor’s office.

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