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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
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Subject: Re: throwing candy
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:24:11 EDT
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> In re marriage Goitein records the following Yemenite Jewish proverb.
> 
>     Man enjoys life only twice, when he marries and when he dies.
> 
> I am not sure what it is supposed to mean.  [J. MARTILLO]

Me neither, but maybe the Yemenites, or Goitein, garbled the following
misogynous quote expressed by the ancient Greek, Hipponax of Ephesus:

	"The two days in a woman's life a man can best enjoy
 	 are when he marries her and when he carries
	 her dead body to the grave."

[Hipponax of Ephesus, cited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, ed,
"Women in Greece and Rome" (Toronto, Samuel-Stevens, 1977), p. 13, cited
in turn by the ugly, lunatic-fringe Andrea Dworkin in "Right-wing Women"
(New York, Perigee, 1983), p. 194]

					-- Matt Rosenblatt