#old maid

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

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She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. ↗

— Thomas Nelson Page

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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. ↗

— William Blake

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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

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I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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