“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
Variant: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Source: Les Misérables
“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
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American chess player and writer 1928–2013Related quotes
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Scerne il dolor del fallo.
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“The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Quoted in The Fine Art of Political Wit by Leon Harris (1964); this statement is derived from one by humorist Don Marquis