(43 quotes found)
“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
“You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!”
William Shakespeare
“Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.”
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid”
Proverb
“To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.”
“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
“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.”
“Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic.”
John Keats
“Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced”
Matthew Green
