Mistress Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mistress Money Poor Riches
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. — Horace Copy Share Image
A real woman will never be impressed by wealth or riches because the unconditional love and affection she will give you for a lifetime… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. — John Wilkes Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
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