“Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.” MenMarriageMen And WomenMistressMattresses Author:Jim Backus
“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.” IfsEyeFatherWhiteForgetPayMarriageVisionArmsHusbandResourcesDatingLovelyCleverCarrieComplimentSailMistressSurveysManlyAisleSurrogatesNew Father Author:Germaine Greer
“When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.” LoveFunnyJobsMarriageMistressBeing IrishVacancyFunny Irish Author:James Goldsmith
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” MenAgeYoungMarriageWifeMiddleYoung ManCompanionOld ManNurseWeddingMistressMiddle AgesBest MarriageWives And MothersGreat WifeYoung Wife Author:Francis Bacon
“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.” TwoStatesFunnyCommunityMarriageConditionsMastersRomanticSlaveWeddingMistressAnniversaryLove And MarriageWedding AnniversaryInspirational MarriageBest MarriageSweet Anniversary Author:Ambrose Bierce
“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.” PlayWorkMusicMarriageMusic IsJazzMistressJazz MusicPlaying MusicFiddlePlaying Jazz Author:Duke Ellington
“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.” LawHouseKnownMarriageSlaveBondageMistress Author:John Stuart Mill
“We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.” MenSometimesMarriageTeacherSubjectsComfortableFellowsSoldierDramaticRealisticSovereignMistressSolemnMerryPupilsComradeSlippersThunderstormFellow Soldiers Author:C. S. Lewis
“... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.” MarriageWifeLoversHusbandMistressHusband And Wife Book:Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections