Maidens Quotes - Page 3

• Good day, fair maidens.

  Val Venis

  Good Day, Superstar, Fairs

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• Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
  And many maiden gardens yet unset,
  With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
  Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
  So should the lines of life that life repair
  Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
  Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
  Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

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• I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mean, Iron, Leaving

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• When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

  David Pajo

  Iron, Black, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

  Mat McNerney

  Hate, Mean, Emotional

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Swans, Ideas

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.

  Keiko Nobumoto

  Lying, Flower, Sadness

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• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Errors, Age

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Self, Hands, Intellectual

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.

  Paula Poundstone

  Mother, Keys, Names

  "On Location: Women of the Night". TV Special, July 11, 1987.

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• How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

  Ernest Bramah

  Fighting, Grace, Balance

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.527, e-artnow

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• `Tis May, the elfish maiden, the daughter of the Spring, Upon whose birthday morning the birds delight to sing. They would not sing one note for you, if you should so command, Although you are a princess, a princess of the land.

  Robert Fuller Murray

  Daughter, Morning, Spring

  Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”

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• A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

  John Barth

  Writing, Years, Knowing

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• I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Land, Cleaners

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.4495, e-artnow

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• The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Country, War, Reading

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• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Dream, Home

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• I was named after my mother's maiden name.

  Sprague Grayden

  Mother, Names, Maiden Names

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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• The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

  Alice Cary

  Dream, Done, Burden

  Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122

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• Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

  Joseph Howe

  Politics, Married

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• Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Painting, Finest, Young

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• I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

  Ibn Arabi

  Spiritual, Knights, Unions

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• What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Gentleman, Sage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.113, Рипол Классик

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