You might also include Marie Antoinette's "let them eat cake" quote.
Also, tell them about the man who was married to two women, Edith and
Kate. For years neither found out about the other, but when they did
find out, there was hell to pay. In the middle of all the fighting, the
man said "look, when you didn't know about each other, you were both
happy. What was wrong with that arrangement." The two consulted and
finally told him that he couldn't have his Kate and Edith too.


--Lia