RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse. — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not… — Thomas Nash Copy Share Image
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Mary kept down the housekeeping bills to the very best of her ability, but meat was always dear, and she suspected the… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude… — William Shakespeare 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
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were twenty-three females on the Keltar estate--not counting Gwen, Chloe, herself, or the cat--Gabby knew, because shortly after Adam had become… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between… — Ronald Greville 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
You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a… — Shirley Jones Copy Share Image
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.' — Natasha Leggero 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
