Mistresses Quotes

31 quotes by 30 authors

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses. — Albert Camus
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. — Lord Chesterfield
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. — Hector Hugh Munro
At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those… — Therese of Lisieux
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was… — Ernest Hemingway
A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other… — Jay Leno
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. — Alain Ducasse
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got… — Pierre Salinger
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in… — John Lennon
Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails,… — Douglas Clegg
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you… — William Wycherley
Theyâ€™ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and… — Argus Hamilton
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in… — Eugene Delacroix
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

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