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  • I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

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  • My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn

    Horse   Father   Fall  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (1994). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, Thorndike Pr
  • Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

    "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,
  • One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

    Sleep   Maids   Bears  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin
  • Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

    Dream   Dog   Secret  
    Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.121, Penguin
  • The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

    Trust   Sea   Safety  
    John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201
  • Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

  • The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

  • And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

    Wall   Men   Light  
  • A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

    Girl   Sports   Boys  
    Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions
  • Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

  • But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

    Death   Garden   Heaven  
    William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”
  • Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

    Husband   Maids   Want  
  • No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

    Angel   Maids   Might  
    John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
  • The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

    Life   Heart   Men  
    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
  • Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.

    Jobs   Men   House  
  • When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

    Stars   Years   House  
    Star Trek Database, www.startrek.com.
  • It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

    Maids   Faces   Exhausted  
    Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.
  • To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

    Thinking   Luck   Teeth  
  • 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. . . .

    Art   Grief   Moon  
    William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824
  • I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

    School   Fate   Maids  
  • In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

    Black   Hollywood   Maids  
  • All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

    Women   Taken   Maids  
  • Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

    Money   Player   Cards  
    Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen
  • When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said, "I was just whispering in her mouth"

  • Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

    Winter   Support   Maids  
    John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197
  • Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

    Night   Men   Please Me  
    1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
  • But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

    Flames   Tree   Listening  
    William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”
  • Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

    People   Giving   Mind  
    Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”
  • The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

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