Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
Alison Weir
For centuries, divorce in the West was a male tool of control - a legislative chastity belt designed to ensure that a wife had one master, while a husband could enjoy many mistresses. It is as though, having denied women their cake for so long, the makers have no wish to see them enjoy it.
Amanda Foreman
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
Anita Baker
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
Annie Besant
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.
Bill O'Reilly
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'
Binyavanga Wainaina
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
Carrie Fisher
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.
Deborah Sampson
My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
Derek Walcott
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Eliza Farnham
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
I was a rebellious student, called up in assembly almost every week for some misdemeanour, lots of time on the Headmistress's office for what must have been, in retrospect, annoying behaviour.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.
I would be heartbroken if I found out my husband had a mistress.
Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.
Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.
