Old Maids Quotes
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Old Maids Quotes & Sayings
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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
Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion?
— R.C. Sproul
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
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
The conscious mind - the self or soul - is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief.
— Steven Pinker
Rewards usually improve performance only at extremely simple - indeed, mindless - tasks, and even then they improve only quantitative performance.
— Alfie Kohn
I do think one should have clean feet.
— Manolo Blahnik
Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.
— L.M. Montgomery
But without Lo to hide behind, my only defense against Aaron is to run. And I'm not as fast as Loren Hale. Not even close.
— Krista Ritchie
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
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
— Josh Billings
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
— Thomas Nelson Page
Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!
— Laurie Notaro
Thank God for a few free waves.
— Miki Dora
I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
— Elsa Peretti
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
— Nicolas Chamfort
To succeed in life, doing your best is not enough, you should also improve your best.
— Mohith Agadi
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
— Malala Yousafzai
Everything that is happening to us today is only the result of all the decisions that we made yesterday.
— Sunday Adelaja
I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.
— Florence Converse
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
If someone had told me I would have to lose everything I had to find everything I need, I wouldn't have believed them.
— Sara Mack
She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.
— Michael Chabon