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From Reader's Digest (#1-5)

In one of New York magazine's competition features, edited by Mary Ann Madden, readers were asked to select a well-known phrase and attach a follow-up that falls short. Below are the well-known phrase parts of  some of the contributions. Can you come up with a clever phrase that falls short? The contributors' answers are given below.

1. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
2. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses."
3. ". . . He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."
4. "Say not the struggle naught availeth."
5. "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,/May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
6. "We the people of the United States ....."

Contributors' Answers:

1. It's nothing dear. Go back to sleep.
2. And while you're at it, throw in a couple of those Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
3. And I breaketh out in poison ivy.
4. Three times real fast
5. Juliet, this bud's for you. 
6. Can't seem to agree on anything

Credits:
1. Gene Zaug
2. John McCutcheon
3. Jack Rose
4. Richard Stall
5. Cindy Strite
6. Joseph Appel