Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

Theophile Gautier

"The cat is a dilettante in fur."

H. P. Lovecraft

"I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me."

Douglas William Jerrold

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

Ninon de L’Enclos

"If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet."

Henry A. Kissinger

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

Herbert Hoover

"All men are equal before fish."

Cathy Guisewite

"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."