Maids Quotes - Page 10

• I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

  Janet Reno

  Men, Awkward, Affection

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• A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

  Nathalia Crane

  Laughter, Wall, Angel

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
  if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
  and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
  it would have been a swell dinner.

  Duncan Hines

  Food, Wine, Turkeys

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• 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.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Men, House

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• Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Beautiful, Clothes, Light

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.168, Vintage

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• My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

  Natasha Leggero

  Sarcastic, Dream, Play

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• Fair maid, white and red,
  Comb me smooth, and stroke my head;
  And every hair a sheave shall be,
  And every sheave a golden tree.

  George Peele

  Beauty, Hair, White

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• Though logic-choppers rule the town,
  And every man and maid and boy
  Has marked a distant object down,
  An aimless joy is a pure joy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Boys, Men, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
  [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Thinking, Hair

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• To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Men, Years

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• ... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Girl, School, House

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• Silence is only commendable
  In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Tongue, Neat

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Fate, Odyssey

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Book, Phones

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

  Thomas Campbell

  Writing, Wish, Sin

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• Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil
  Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

  Fanny Kemble

  Mother, Memorable, Wife

  "The Star of Seville: A Drama. In Five Acts".

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• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Tired, Hollywood

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• I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafes. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.

  Hiro Fujiwara

  Book, Games, Play

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• Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

  Mark Krikorian

  Jobs, Occupation, Facts

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• I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Opportunity, Nurse, Different

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• Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.62

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• 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.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Taken, Twenties

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