Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!matt From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: throwing candy Message-ID: <1675@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:24:11 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1675 Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:24:11 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 11:27:22 EDT References: <741@lsuc.UUCP> <3780096@csd2.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 19 > 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