I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
“I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.”
“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”