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The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old -- Groucho Marx
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
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. -- William Blake
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. -- Thomas Nelson Page
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. -- Edna Ferber
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
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
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. -- Jane Austen
I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. -- Lily Tomlin
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men. -- Janet Reno
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. -- Billy Sunday
I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men. -- Janet Reno
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. -- Honore de Balzac
What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! -- Arthur Rimbaud
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes. -- Louisa May Alcott
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid. -- Elizabeth Bennett
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. -- Lana Turner
Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything. -- Florence King
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. -- Jane Austen
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid. -- Erwin Panofsky

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