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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Quote by Francis Bacon about wealth, good, good luck

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, man, age, old

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about simplicity, man

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about husband

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about power

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Quote by George Gordon Byron

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.

Quote by Paul Gauguin

Marriage the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about marriage, state