Bed Quote by Nellie L. McClung

“Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.”

Nellie L. McClung

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No nation ever rises higher than its women.

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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not…

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War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

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Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

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Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for…

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Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

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Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this…

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In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury…

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Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

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Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

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The good is the greatest rival of the best.

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

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The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the…

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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…

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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge…

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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to music. Outside there were trees, a ditch, a bridge; another parking lot. It was very dark. Maybe the Sasquatch would run out from the woods. Chelsea wouldn’t be afraid. She would calmly watch the Sasquatch jog…

Tao Lin

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 thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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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 was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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