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Mulla Nasrudin's wife was giving her daughter a few interesting facts about married life. "I hope," she told the young gir...

Mulla Nasrudin and his young son were driving in the country one winter. It was snowing. Their bullock-cart broke down. They finally rea...

The situation was desperate. Mulla Nasrudin had been bitten by a rabid dog and the doctors were not certain that he had begun treatment i...

"My wife used to play the piano," a friend told Mulla Nasrudin, "but since the children came, she has not had time to touc...

Mulla Nasrudin was sitting on his cot in a flophouse. "You know," he said to the fellow on the next cot, "when I was se...

Mulla Nasrudin was telling a friend his future through palmistry. He said, "You will be poor and unhappy and miserable until you are...

"I am going to get a divorce," a friend told Mulla Nasrudin. "My wife has not spoken to me in three months." "...

Mulla Nasrudin was obviously envious of the rich man who had just given him a dollar. "You have no reason to envy me," said t...

Mulla Nasrudin's son, studying political science, asked his father, "Dad, what's a traitor in politics?" "Any m...

The editor tried hard to read Mulla Nasrudin's handwriting. "Mulla, this handwriting is so bad I can hardly read it," he s...

Mulla Nasrudin, carrying a chair, walked up to the owner of a secondhand store and asked how much it was worth. "Three dollars,&...

Mulla Nasrudin finally bought a parrot at an auction after some rather spirited bidding. "I assume the bird talks," he said ...

Mulla Nasrudin had just returned a sheaf of poems to the budding young poet. "Do you think it would help if I put more fire into ...

Mulla Nasrudin was visited by a boyhood friend whom he had not seen for years. The man told him a long story of misfortune: bankruptcy, d...

"You have got to have more recreation and relaxation," said Mulla Nasrudin to the overworked friend. "But I am too busy...

Mulla Nasrudin always said: "Oh, well, it might have been worse." One day an acquaintance stopped him and said, "I drea...

A drunk cowhand rushed into a bar waving and firing his guns at random and shouting, "All you dirty, lousy skunks get outta here.&q...

A guest at a concert turned to Mulla Nasrudin sitting next to him and criticised the voice of the woman who was singing. "What a t...

"This sure is a lousy party," a guest at a cocktail party said to Mulla Nasrudin, who was next to him. "I  am going to fi...

The editor of the local newspaper was beside himself. He said to Mulla Nasrudin in the teahouse: "What are we going to do for our fr...