A lady having died unmarried at the age of sixty-five, the following epitaph was engraved upon her tombstone:
“She was fearfully and wonderfully maid.”
“This animal,” said a menagerie-man, “is exceedingly timid and retired in its habits. It is seldom seen by the human eye—sometimes never!”
If it was Talleyrand who described language as a gift bestowed upon man in order to enable him to conceal his thoughts, he scarcely made that use of it, when, in reply to some friend who asked his opinion of a certain lady, he said: “She has but one fault—she is insufferable!”
“What do you want?” demanded an irate house-holder, called to the window at eleven o’clock, by the ringing of the door-bell:
“Want to stay here all night.”