Fun, Festive Ways To See Off The Newly Wedded Couple ... The traditions over the years have varied so many times and have had so many things introduced that it is hard to keep track with what the current trend in seeing the newlywed couple off...
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)