But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare
That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board. - Elizabeth Peters
Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said. - George R.R. Martin
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. - Billy Sunday
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. - Edna Ferber
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton