Like mistress, like maid. [ Proverb ]
As spiteful as an old maid. [ Proverb ]
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]
The last suitor wins the maid. [ Proverb ]
Hackney mistress, hackney maid. [ Proverb ]
The honor of a maid is her name. [ William Shakespeare ]
O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]
A maid that laughs is half taken. [ Proverb ]
She is neither maid, wife nor widow. [ Proverb ]
The blushing beauty of a modest maid. [ Dryden ]
A maid oft seen, and a gown oft worn,
Are disesteemed, and held in scorn. [ Proverb ]
It is said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity. [ Byron ]
An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes. [ Wm. R. Alger ]
New dressed and blooming as a bridal maid. [ Walter Harte ]
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! [ Longfellow ]
His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]
How can the cat help it, if the maid be a fool? [ Proverb ]
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song. [ Charles Kingsley ]
He that woos a maid must come seldom in her sight,
But he that woos a widow, must woo her day and night. [ Proverb ]
When the maid leaves open the door, blame not the cat. [ Proverb ]
Bachelor's wives, and maid's children are well taught. [ Proverb ]
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! [ Byron ]
Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault. [ Proverb ]
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. [ Greek Anthology ]
How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]
Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]