Zitat des Tages über Herrin / Mistress:
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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.
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
I have this mistress: show business.
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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.
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
I would be heartbroken if I found out my husband had a mistress.
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
