Feb

7

I humbly admit, all day I've been beating myself up, mean to wife, because I was so wrong today.

I think, "honey if I lost all my money would you still love me?" "Yes, dear, I'd love you, but I wouldn't be with you any more"…

When your wife asks you how it went, I like Irving Redel's answer… "Honey, how did the market treat you today?" "Fair."

Tom Printon writes:

When I was beginning my career on floor Irving was winding his down.
Occasionally Irving appeared for an opening which meant something was
going to go down. The Blue Jay signaling other members of the forest?
Perhaps something on the predatory side?

Jeff Watson opines: 

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. [H.L. Mencken]

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. The mark of that so-called intuition is simply a sharp and accurate perception of reality, an habitual immunity to emotional enchantment, a relentless capacity for distinguishing clearly between the appearance and the substance. The appearance, in the normal family circle, is a hero, magnifico, a demigod. The substance is a poor mountebank.

[H.L. Mencken, "In Defense of Women"]

Stefan Jovanovich writes:

I can't find the reference so this may be apocryphal, but Einstein is rumored to have said that he and his wife had a perfect understanding. He would decide the important questions (such as whether or not his adopted country should raise its income tax rates) while his wife would deal with the trivialities (such as where they would live and what kind of car they would drive).

Russ Sears writes:

My wife of 23 years is very tolerant of these things, besides letting me say "yes dear, right away. You're right." I can add "I was wrong."


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