Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

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

— Groucho Marx

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which…

— Louisa May Alcott

Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and…

— John Major

Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

— Honore de Balzac

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…

— Jessica Biel

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

— Josh Billings

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

— Mary Borden

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the…

— John Major

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art…

— Erwin Panofsky

The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and…

— Polly Adler

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

— Elizabeth Bennett

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of…

— Pierre Bayle

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be. At thirty they say nothing about…

— Louisa May Alcott