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Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye. — George R R Martin

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me. — Nelson DeMille

This maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me. — Edgar Allan Poe

But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away. — Mary Mapes Dodge

The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album. — Victor LaValle

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a maiden in distress, sir; we have no time for trivialities such as the lack of experience. — Nicole Sager

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. — Gelett Burgess

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union ... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi

The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden. — Germaine Greer

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens

Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned this
France or the Bible. — Karen Russell

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. — Paula Poundstone

Muscled like a maiden's fantasy — George R R Martin

Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ... — Muse

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. — Bruce Dickinson

Death wants his Maiden — Belinda Bauer

A shoe-shaped bath tub, within which I felt like Marat but with no white-necked maiden to stab me. — Vladimir Nabokov

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. — David Lloyd George

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique. — Adrian Smith

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. — William C. Bryant

I was named after my mother's maiden name. — Sprague Grayden

Many a maiden,
With white feet dancing light as air,
Made happy music through the gloom. — Euripides

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. — Empedocles

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. — Bruce Dickinson

Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson

What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would rather
have this one night with you than another thousand years. — Michele Bardsley

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame. — Sydney Marie Hughes

To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally. — Rick Riordan

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off — Bruce Dickinson

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought. — Sheri S. Tepper

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. — Miguel De Cervantes

Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it. — Guy De Maupassant

He done taught me de maiden language all over. — Zora Neale Hurston

Each now has permission to seek the maiden in whatever way he thinks best. — Friedrich Heinrich Karl De La Motte Fouque

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And
ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore! — George Arnold

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses... — Glen Duncan

The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone. — Hafez

Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented. — Stephen King

Money is as shy and elusive as the "old time" maiden. — Napoleon Hill

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands. — David Pajo

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to. — Charles Hazlewood

I had four brothers, no sisters, and shared a tiny bedroom with my maiden aunt for the first seventeen years of my life. I had no choice but to write. — Margaret Hermes

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. — Arthur Desmond

Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' — Stephen King

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod ... — Hilda Doolittle

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. — James M. Barrie

Karma can be a beautiful maiden or a bitch... — Lada Ray

He looked like a Yanni fan at an Iron Maiden Concert. — Kelley Armstrong

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian. — Clarence Day

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Faint heart never won fair maiden — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is. — Ella Leya

Felix ran his hands through his dark hair, sounding like a resigned maiden aunt. 'It'll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn't. — Gail Carriger

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such. — Tertullian

The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden. — Angela Carter

What maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue? — Catherynne M Valente

Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. — J.R.R. Tolkien

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair. — Heinrich Heine

The sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a whore. — George R R Martin

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. — Bruce Dickinson

I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. — George Duke

Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne

Forbearance is a maiden's worst enemy. If you're happy, that's all that counts. — Novala Takemoto

I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don't want to fall in love, — Tamora Pierce

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold. — Jean Paul

The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea. — Eric H. Borneman

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility. — Charmian Clift

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden. — Marilynne Robinson

I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not. — Julie Garwood

Persinette, let down your hair. — Charlotte-Rose De Caumont De La Force

Not sweet like fruits, the heart of a maiden is a little sour. — Bunjuro Nakayama

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event."
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"Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden — Karen Hawkins

Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection. — Voltaire

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. — Mercedes Lackey

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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog. — Penn Jillette

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon. — Charles Lamb

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. — Cameron Diaz

The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty. — Miguel De Cervantes

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? — Eugene Field

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow. — Atsushi

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. — Stephen Crane

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. — D.H. Lawrence

Her name is Brienne. Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"
"Yes."
"Oh, good. I only rescue maidens. — George R R Martin

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. — Mason Cooley

Time is the enemy of lovers. Worse even than the frank light of day. — Joyce Carol Oates

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. — Roger Zelazny

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. — Walter Scott

Her name was Hildegardis, and she was acknowledged far and wide as the fairest of maidens. — Friedrich Heinrich Karl De La Motte Fouque

Boy with a maiden's glance,
I seek you out, but you hear not,
Unknowing that you are the charioteer
Of my soul. — Anacreon