With human failings, whether saint or sinner:
Endowed perhaps with genius from the gods
But apt to take his temper from his dinner.
—J. G. Saxe.
A woman mounted the steps of the elevated station carrying an umbrella like a reversed saber. An attendant warned her that she might put out the eye of the man behind her.
"Well, he's my husband!" she snapped.
OLD MONEY (dying)—"I'm afraid I've been a brute to you sometimes, dear."
YOUNG WIFE—"Oh, never mind that darling; I'll always remember how very kind you were when you left me."