To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.
—Dutch Proverb.
January Sixth
Mrs. President has disposed of six husbands and is to take a seventh: being of the opinion that there is as much virtue in the touch of a seventh husband as of a seventh son.
—Addison.
January Seventh
I praise th’ saints I niver was married, though I had opportunities enough when I was a young man, an’ even now I have to wear me hat low whin I go down be Cologne Street, on account iv the widow Grogan.
—Mr. Dooley.
January Eighth
Tush! herself knows not what she shall do when she is transformed into a widow.