Quotes of Maiden - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary. ”

- William Gilbert

“ My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons. ”

- Frank Gelett Burgess

“ What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ”

- John Bunyan

“ I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. ”

- Edith Head

“ Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. - Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about… ”

- Bruce Dickinson

“ I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. ”

- Paula Poundstone

“ I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. ”

- Poul Anderson

“ What is your fortune, my pretty maid? "My face is my fortune, Sir," she said. ”

- Nursery Rhyme

“ I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. ”

- Kirsten Dunst

“ She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. ”

- Bible

“ Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. ”

- Bible

“ For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights, And I trow The damsel, deftly shod, Has dutifully trod Until now. ”

- Frederick Locker Lampson

“ I just don't want to die without a few scars. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. ”

- Bible

“ So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. ”

- Bible

“ She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. ”

- Thomas Nelson Page

“ Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced. ”

- Matthew

“ Too bad Lassie didn't know how to ice skate, because then if she was in Holland on vacation in winter and someone said "Lassie, go skate for help," she could do it. ”

- Jack Handy

“ She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. ”

- Hartley Coleridge

“ Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ”

- Chuck Jones

“ No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes
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