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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands. — John Webster

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. — Lana Turner

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men. — Janet Reno

Sterling Maids clean up with some sexy fun.
— Sahalie Blue

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid. — Hattie McDaniel

Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. — Mary Borden

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. — Louisa May Alcott

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely. — Benjamin Franklin

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine. — William Shakespeare

I'd rather play a maid than be one. — Hattie McDaniel

Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. — William Shakespeare

One of my maids forgot the fruit with my breakfast. I became a skunk and sprayed her. — Cynthia Hand

I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid. — Groucho Marx

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. — C.S. Lewis

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. — St. Jerome

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. — Bill Condon

Shy maids are my favorite sort. Aside from wanton ones. — George R R Martin

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically. — L.M. Montgomery

The dress was a deep red, strapless and practically backless, and I was almost positive my maids had used magic to make it stay up at all. — Kiera Cass

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives? — Charles Lamb

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King

every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids — Sinead Moriarty

Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more sensible people. — Hermann Hesse

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. — Plato

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy — Christina Rossetti

Of a band with three actual boys, why is it that all the maids lust after the fake one? — A.C. Gaughen

Silverbells and cockleshells' and freaky dreams and dizzy maids all in a row. — Kresley Cole

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. — William Shakespeare

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. — Robert Herrick

Mummy always had French maids, and Daddy always chased them. It kept their marriage happy. — Rhys Bowen

To this day I clean better than most maids. — Ernest Borgnine

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it. — Sofia Vergara

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. — Martin Luther

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another. — Thomas Campion

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then. — Margaret Atwood

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. — Josh Billings

The blushing beauties of a modest maid. — John Dryden

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. — Bill Condon

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. — Robert Browning

Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure! — Laurie Notaro

The coyest maids make the fondest wives. — Samuel Richardson

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids. — Lucia Berlin

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one. — Hattie McDaniel

She never even wore stockings; just those bullet proof tights that you see on old maids. — Poppet

Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. — Fanny Kemble

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there. — Dolly Parton

Be kind to the spider. It's simply working hard to be itself. And don't tell the maids, — Julie Anne Long

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home — Estella M. Chung

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? — John Waters

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. — Tim Bedore

I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids. — Florence Converse

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. — Nicolas Chamfort

(About a cookbook ... )
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor ... but they ends up Tarts. — Terry Pratchett

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! — William Shakespeare

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men. — Janet Reno

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. — William Shakespeare

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. — Colleen McCullough

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. — Esther Rolle

You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid. — Jay Leno

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. — C.S. Lewis

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. — George R R Martin

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria. — Terence McKenna

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. — Thomas Nelson Page