“Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced”
Matthew Green
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid”
Proverb
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
William Shakespeare
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song”
Charles Kingsley
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!”
“He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her”
Nathaniel Smith