‘If you want truth’, Nasrudin told a group of Seekers who had come to hear his teachings, ‘you will have to pay for it.’ ‘But why should you have to pay for something like truth?’ asked one of the company. ‘Have you noticed’, said Nasrudin, ‘that it is the scarcity of a thing which determines [...]

A man said to Nasrudin, ‘Mulla, your wife is a terrible gossip. She visits everyone in town and gossips all the time.’ ‘I don’t believe that — otherwise she would surely have dropped in on me from time to time and gossiped — and she has never done that!’

Mulla Nasrudin went to see a psychiatrist. He said: ‘My trouble is that I can’t remember anything.’ ‘When did this start?’ asked the doctor. ‘When did what start?’ said Nasrudin.