Wednesday, December 12, 2012

12.12.12 (For superstitious folks:  this is apparently the last triple date for almost a century!  January 1, 2101)  For couples:  it is an easy anniversary date to remember.

"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."
~ George B.Shaw (1856 - 1950) Man and Superman, Irish playwright. 

"The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men."
~ Francis Bacon (1561 -1626)  Of Marriage and Single Life. English philosopher, statesman.

"When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste."
~ Charles Dickens,  Pickwick Papers XXVII

"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
~ George B. Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists.