"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else." Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
"An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact." Maria Edgeworth
"To err is human; to loaf, Parisian." Victor Hugo
"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries." Jules Renard
"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it." Langston Hughes
"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." Joseph Wood Krutch