query: the chain of wedlock

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:37 AM -0500 10/4/10, Charles C Rice wrote:
>A colleague has asked about the source of the saying:
>
>The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and
>sometimes three.
>
>It is variously cited as from Heraclitus or from Alexandre Dumas, père or
>fils. Wikiquotes gives it to Dumas père but unsourced. Unfortunately I
>don't have a copy of YBQ, in which the answer surely resides...
>
>Thanks,
>Clai Rice

Aucune idée, but it certainly *sounds* French.   ;-)


LH

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