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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. -- William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. -- William Shakespeare
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. -- Josh Billings
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. -- Thomas Nelson Page
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. -- Bill Condon
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. -- Bill Condon
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 part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. -- Honore de Balzac
As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. -- Kathryn Stockett
Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. -- Fanny Kemble
(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts. -- Terry Pratchett
To this day I clean better than most maids. -- Ernest Borgnine
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. -- Charles Kingsley
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. -- William Blake
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. -- John Milton
Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. -- Tim Bedore
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. -- Natalie Wood
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. -- Sarah Waters
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. -- Edna Ferber
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it. -- Sofia Vergara
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys. -- Sophie Winkleman
I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. -- Esther Rolle
I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there. -- Dolly Parton
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. -- Anna Quindlen
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. -- Lafcadio Hearn
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. -- Evelyn Waugh
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have? -- Retta
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. -- Shirley Jones
My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera. -- Amy Bloom
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. -- Antonia Fraser
When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! -- Louise Redknapp
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. -- Jane Austen
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. -- Louisa May Alcott
I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. -- Joan Caulfield
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. -- Karen Black
When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The Jetsons.' For some reason, I loved the notion of a future where there would be flying cars, supercomputers, and most of all, robot maids to take care of the chores. -- Ben Shapiro
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it. -- Karisma Kapoor
Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!' -- Esther Rolle
Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? -- John Waters
The coyest maids make the fondest wives. -- Samuel Richardson
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands. -- John Webster
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. -- Robert Browning
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. -- Robert Herrick
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives? -- Charles Lamb
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. -- St. Jerome
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. -- Ambrose Bierce
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. -- Florence King
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. -- George R. R. Martin
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. -- Mary Borden
Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home -- Estella M. Chung
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. -- Louisa May Alcott
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. -- Colleen McCullough
Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria. -- Terence McKenna
I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. -- C. S. Lewis
I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then. -- Margaret Atwood
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. -- John Major
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. -- Gorgias
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. -- Charlotte Bronte
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled! -- Eleanor of Aquitaine
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn. -- Honore de Balzac
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact. -- Louisa May Alcott
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue. -- Moliere
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! -- Thomas Nash
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon. -- Charles Lamb

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