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
LifeHappinessDanceSameMistress
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
LifeHeartWordsHumanSheMistress
Your wife doesn't want to hear a word about how hot your mistress is, and vice versa.
John Benjamin Hickey
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I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
SonTimeExperienceBirthMistress
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Leonardo da Vinci
NatureLawThemeMistressHerGuide
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Samuel Richardson
MenWifeWillBearMistressThings
Inclusiveness is expanded by grievance. If I were a mistress, I would not need to fight for my career.
Zhou Qunfei
FightCareerNeedMistressWould
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
MadnessNothingEventsSheMistress
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
Alison Weir
LoveReadingMistressSupernatural
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
Julian Barnes
WifeYouPageMistressGetYour
I have this mistress: show business.
Ray Romano
BusinessMistressShow BusinessShow
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner
MoviesMistressMarriedTheater
Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.
John Constable
LandscapeLookFameMistressHer
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley
NightCountryDwellMistressLittle
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
James Goldsmith
OpportunityJobManMistressHis
The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
Niccolo Paganini
GuitarViolinMasterMistress
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
I AmMistressOnlyMarriedTheater
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith
MoneyImportantAutomobileMistress
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
FindingNewOldPleasureMistress
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
HusbandWayFirstAlwaysMistress
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
DreamsManMistressHerWeaknesses
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
PowerMeHardMistressTakeHer
The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
Jeff Bridges
FocusQualityMistressFickleLike
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
StudentMistressFickleWhoGrasp
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