A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. Honoré de Balzac
It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees? Abraham Lincoln
He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.