Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Robertson Davies

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

William Lilly

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Prince Charles

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Oskar Werner

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

William Shakespeare

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Benjamin Disraeli

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dean Gilmour

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Wayne Fields

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

Mike McKinney

I may be half the man I used to be. But my heart is still the same and my affection for this community has not died. What kind of world can I create now, what type of person can I become, what type of legacy can I leave now, not what I did before but what can I do now.

Martin Delany

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Laurie Graham

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Alan Ball

I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.

Brooks Robinson

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Mark Twain

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Laurell K. Hamilton

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Kevin Kelly

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.