• He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

    Francis Bacon: He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'
    Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1