Maiden

Famous quotes containing the word maiden:

“Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
O sairer, sairer akes my head;
And sairer, sairer ever will,
The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
—Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

“I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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