“Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her.”
Robert Herrick
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid”
Proverb
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
William Shakespeare
“You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!”
“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
“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
