Funniest People in Books, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes

A sample anecdote: Some sentences have more than one meaning, including contradictory meanings. (A pause in a sentence can be important.) Poet Robert Southey hinted around for a compliment about 'Madoc,' his epic, so classical scholar Richard Porson said, "e;'Madoc' will be remembered-when Homer and Virgil are forgotten."e;