“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
Honore de Balzac
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
Winston Churchill
“What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
William Osler
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid”
Proverb
“Madam, I may not call you; mistress I am ashamed to call you; and so I know not what to call you; but howsoever, I thank you.”
Elizabeth I
