Bed Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bed Bed sheets Bedtime Bundles Funny insomnia Funny sleep Funny sleeping Going to sleep Good night sleep Good sleep Had a good night Have a good night Insomnia Paradox Quitting Regret Reluctance Sleep Sleepiness Sleeping at night Sleeping in
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Some nights the bed is endlessly wide, some nights it contains all the loneliness in the world. Some nights it is soft and promising, when waiting for sleep is the best part of the day. Some nights, like this one, the bed is hard, the mattress an enemy that wants to force your thoughts into the wrong track, that seems… — Mons Kallentoft Copy Share
“Beds are not the right place for reading, watching TV, discussing daily issues or worrying about the future. Beds are only good for two… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not whether we… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have! — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
“And then I thought: 'It's for a warning,'" she continues. "You may think a bed is a peaceful thing, sir. For you it may mean rest, and comfort, and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone. There are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. It's where we are born, that's our first peril… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
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It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in. — Bellamy Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image