“You are God’s chosen race, His saints; He loves you, and you should be clothed in sincere compassion, in kindness and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another, forgive each other as soon as a quarrel begins” (Colossians 3:12-13).
Veteran comics know that they can always get a laugh by dipping into their storehouse of husband-and-wife jokes — lover ’s quarrels. For example …
“My wife and I had a fight last night.” “How did it end up?”
“She came crawling to me on her hands and knees.”
“What did she say?”
“Come out from under that bed, you coward!”
“A lover ’s quarrel,” it has been said, “is like a storm at sea; all the fury is on the surface, but underneath there is a deep current of love.”
Engraved on the tombstone of poet Robert Frost are the words: “I had a lover ’s quarrel with the world.” Frost himself chose that epitaph. What it means, really, is that he had…
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