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Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.
My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.
My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].
Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.