The Blessing of a Mate

Someone has compiled the following list of observations about married
life:

* A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can
spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

* Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow
deteriorate during the night.

* A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he
wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item that she
doesn't want.

* To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a
little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not
try to understand her at all.

* When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men
invade another country.

* A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A
man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.

* A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man
never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

* There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before
marriage and after marriage.

* Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to
let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her
have it.

* Any married man should forget his mistakes - there's no use in two
people remembering the same thing.

* A man has six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, shaving cream,
razor, a bar of soap, deodorant and a towel. The average number of
items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be
able to identify most of these items.

* A woman always has the last word in any argument. Anything a man
says after that is the beginning of a new argument.