One evening Nasrudin quarreled with his wife and shouted at her so fiercely that she fled for refuge to a neighboring house, where he followed her. As it happened, a wedding feast was in progress, and the host and guests did all they could to calm him down, and vied with one another to make the couple reconciled, to eat and enjoy themselves. The Mulla said to his wife: ‘My dear, remind me to lose my temper more often — then life really would be worth living!’