The glazier is not necessarily a tiresome man because he "gives you a pane."
"Some men are easily satisfied," remarked the Observer of Events and Things. "There is the clock-maker, for instance, he never gets any extra pay, and yet every day he works overtime."
A poacher, surprised at his work and pursued in his escape by a vengefully thrown axe, remarked, as he vaulted a fence: "I have no fault to find with your remarks, but I object to the axe-sent."
Take away my first letter, take away my second letter, take away all my letters and I am still the same. What am I? The postman.
"You have been losing flesh lately, haven't you?" "Yes, I've been shaving myself."