Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.