#mistresses

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

#company #conversation #discreetly #doze #fitter

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ↗

— Jose Marti

#go #i #ideas #mistresses #others

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make? ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#day #difference #does #domestic #domestic policy

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

— Francis Bacon

#age #companions #men #middle #middle age

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#did #him #his #horns #loves

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. ↗

— William Maxwell Aitken

#buy #fetch #masters #mistresses #old

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own. ↗

— Jay Leno

#action #against #coming #congress #guy

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often