When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“she never even wore stockings; just those bullet proof tights that you see on old maids.” — Poppet Copy Share Image
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. — Elizabeth Bennett Copy Share Image
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!” — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old… — Florence King Copy Share Image
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that… — Erwin Panofsky Copy Share Image
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“Mamey said that in her day a woman who had not married by the age of thirty was called a thornback, named… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King Copy Share Image
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. — Mary Borden Copy Share Image
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion… — John Major Copy Share Image
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog… — John Major Copy Share Image
