#mistress

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#constant #even #faithful #mistress #threats

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #many #men #mistress #things

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#his #loves #man #mightily #mistaken

I have this mistress: show business. ↗

— Ray Romano

#i #mistress #show #show business

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#i #kind #mistress #nearly #old

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. ↗

— William Lilly

#after #comfortably #dead #great #having

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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

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 time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make? ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#day #difference #does #domestic #domestic policy

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#development #down #even #give #hotel