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Nasrudin's mother, worrying about her son's safety, said to him:
"Didn't I say you should not let that girl come over to your room last night? You know how things like that worry me."
"But I didn't invite her to my room," said Nasrudin. "I went over to her room. NOW YOU CAN LET HER MOTHER DO THE WORRYING."
6.
"Well, young man, I understand you want to become my son-in-law," said the father to his daughter's boyfriend, Mulla Nasrudin.
"NO, SIR, NOT EXACTLY," replied Nasrudin. "BUT IF I MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER, I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN GET OUT OF IT."
7.
Mulla Nasrudin was talking to a friend about his recently broken romance. "Do you mean," asked the friend, "that at her request, you gave up drinking, and smoking, and gambling, and dancing, and playing pool?"
"Yes, just because she insisted," said the Mulla.
"Then why didn't you marry her?" the fellow asked.
"WELL, AFTER ALL THAT REFORMING," said Nasrudin, "I DECIDED I COULD DO BETTER."
8.
A girlfriend at a cocktail party said to Mulla Nasrudin, "I keep hearing you use the word 'idiot;' I hope you are not referring to me."
"DON'T BE SO CONCEITED," said the Mulla. "AS IF THERE WERE NO OTHER IDIOTS IN THE WORLD!"
9.
Mulla Nasrudin sat fishing in a bucket of water.
A visitor, wishing to be friendly, asked, "How many have you caught?"
"YOU ARE THE NINTH," said Nasrudin.
10.
The young lady became angry with her boyfriend, Mulla Nasrudin, and said, "You are a perfect dope!"
"DON'T TRY FLATTERY," said Nasrudin. "NONE OF US IS PERFECT!"
11.
One night, Mulla Nasrudin's father noticed a light in his barn. He went to see what it was all about and he found Nasrudin with a lantern, all dressed up.
"What are you doing all dressed up and with that lantern?" asked his father.
"I am going to call on my girlfriend, Dad," said Nasrudin. "I have got to go through the woods and it is dark."
"When I was your age calling on my wife for the first time," said the father, "I went through the woods without a lantern."
"I KNOW," said Nasrudin, "BUT LOOK WHAT YOU GOT, DAD!"
12.
"Darling,"
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