The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Charles Lamb

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

— Fanny Kemble

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

— Fanny Kemble

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at…

— Samuel Richardson

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

— Samuel Richardson

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

— Samuel Richardson

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

— Groucho Marx

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

— Will Cuppy

Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to…

— John Leo

You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his…

— Karen Maitland

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They…

— Marco Rubio

Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu…

— Natsuki Takaya

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong