Power is the mistress that stalks us all.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress…

— Edward Abbey

“Death stalks all of us by default.”

— Steve Merrick

“If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.”

— skint foodie

Disaffection stalks around us.

— Dolley Madison

“Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)”

— Ishmael Reed

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Ripe strawberries hung from the little plants, row after row. They gleamed like baubles, bright and red among the leaves, weighing down their stalks.”

— Odo Hirsch

“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become,…

— John Updike

“Screen'd is this nook o'er the high, half-reap'd field, And here till sundown, Shepherd, will I be. Through the thick corn the scarlet poppies…

— Matthew Arnold

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color.…

— Andrew Wyeth

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

“But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

— Gerald Abrahams

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain