A sparrow is small; still, it’s a bird.
If your wife were a guitar, you could hang her up after playing.
Casting about for other foreign countries that might offer bits of humor written in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, we come across this from a Polish author named Kajetan Wengierski.
THE DREAM-WIFE
Strangely ’wildered must I seem;
I was married—in a dream.
Oh, the ecstasy of bliss!
Brother, what a joy is this!
Think about it, and confess