Bed Quotes
3432 quotes by 2170 authors
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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on,…
— William Blake
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The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
— John Burroughs
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said,…
— Stewart Udall
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As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes…
— Erica Jong
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When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my…
— Gertrude Stein
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There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables,…
— Russell Baker
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Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into…
— Plutarch
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It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.
— Robert Breault
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In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation.…
— Germaine Greer
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[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
— Joseph Hall
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I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that…
— Diane Guerrero
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do…
— A J Liebling
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Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
— Alexander Pope
Who Wrote These Bed Quotes
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