Children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. — Mary Borden
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers — Honoré de Balzac
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber
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. — Evelyn Waugh
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley. — Benjamin Franklin
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden’s hair and takes the sapphire from a child’s eyes. — Neil Gaiman