A bachelor king disagreed with the statement of his prime minister that men are guided by their wives’ opinion.
The king had all his male married subjects called before him.
“Are you guided by your wives’ judgment?”, the prime minister intoned.
Those in the affirmative were to move to the left. Soon the group at the left held all the men present but one.
He had come a little late and had stood far back. Now he moved to the right.
“ I am glad,” said the king in chagrin, “that there is one man capable of exercising self-determination. Tell these sheep-like ones why you alone stand at the right.”
“Sire,” came the reply, “ when I left home, my wife told me to keep out of crowds.”