Quoted by Mademoiselle, the French Teacher (Heaven Can Wait (20th Century Fox, 1943))

Did you ever consider not marrying girl?
Écoute, mon chérie. In your papa's time, papa kiss mama and they marry.
But this is 1886, time of bicycle, the typewriter is arrive. Soon everybody speak over the telephone and people have new idea of value of kiss.
What is bad yesterday is a lot of fun today.