Maiden

Famous quotes containing the word maiden:

“I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know what particular diet the maiden is fed on.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A maiden marries to please her parents; a widow to please herself.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)