Some Spurgeon Jokes

Spurgeon was a 18th century preacher blessed with a great sense of humour. Here are seven examples. See here.

1. “Call me what you like, but don’t call me too late for dinner.”
The Salt Cellars 1:95
2. “There are difficulties in everything except in eating pancakes.” 
John Ploughman’s Pictures, p. 193
3. “A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.” 
The Salt Cellars 1:19
4. “According to the teaching of the apostle, ‘The husband is the head of the wife.’ Don’t you try to be the head; but you be the neck, then you can turn the head whichever way you like.”
Autobiography 3:348
5. “The preacher who measures himself by his [mirror] may please a few silly girls, but neither God nor man will long put up with him.” 
John Ploughman’s Talk and Pictures, p. 25-26
6. “The only suit that lasts too long is a lawsuit, and that would not suit me at all.”
John Ploughman’s Talk, p. 208
7. “We cannot help the birds flying over our heads; but we may keep them from building their nests in our hair.”
John Ploughman’s Talk, p. 83