Girl Quote by Louisa May Alcott

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

— William Shakespeare

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

— John Webster

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

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

— Billy Sunday

Pretty maids all in a row, go on set them up.

— Van Halen

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…

— Honore de Balzac

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

— Jonathan Swift

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much…

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

— Beatrix Potter