In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Well...what did you promise exactly? Not to tell anyone that Eric Dragomir had a mistress and baby?" Sonya nodded. "And not to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks,… — Douglas Clegg Copy Share Image
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata,… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
