Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. — Honore de Balzac
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? — William Makepeace Thackeray
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment. — Desmond Morris
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. — Bertrand Russell
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. — Martial
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. — Erin Morgenstern
The grumbling mother-in-law forgets that she once was a bride — Greek Proverbs
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — D. H. Lawrence
Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. — Ian Fleming
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind. — Yiddish Proverbs
Short Old Maids Quotes
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. — Gail Sheehy
As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger. — Grace Kelly
Every harlot was a virgin once. — William Blake
When a bitter woman takes over the house, the family she rules is doomed. — African Proverbs
Every woman is at heart a rake. — Alexander Pope
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. — Cher
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin
Old Maids Image Quotes
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Maid Quotes
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled! — James Goldman
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head. — Phoebe Cary
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams. — Marco Rubio
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich. — Reinhard Heydrich
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
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! — Euripides
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. — George R. R. Martin
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. — Louisa May Alcott
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school. — John Major
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. — John Major
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. — Josh Billings
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. — Herman Melville
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
The deer to the wholesome wold;
And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
As it was in the days of old. — Rudyard Kipling
I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.' — Jessica Biel
Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess. — Winston Churchill
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. — Nicolas Chamfort
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything. — Florence King
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men. — Janet Reno
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! — Arthur Rimbaud
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore de Balzac
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. — William Blake
The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old — Groucho Marx
Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood! — William Shakespeare
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. — Lafcadio Hearn
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. — Mary Borden
If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner. — Duncan Hines
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. — Billy Sunday
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. — Thomas Nelson Page
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid. — Erwin Panofsky
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn. — Honore de Balzac
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. — Elizabeth Bennett
I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men. — Janet Reno
And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. — John Milton
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. — Evelyn Waugh
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact. — Louisa May Alcott
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth. — Polly Adler
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. — Diane Keaton
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. — Thomas Nelson Page
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity. — V. P. Skipper
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. — Jane Austen
I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time. — Terry Gross
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity. — Pierre Bayle
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. — Charlotte Bronte
I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them. — Malcolm X
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