The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.