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"The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]"
"For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence."
"Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden."
"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
"Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends."
"Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes."
"when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again."
"In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control."
"Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]"
"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."
"I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''"
"In the dark, all cats are grey."
"In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one."
"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."
"And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound."
"Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"
"Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else."
"It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made."
"Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please."
"Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy."
