Bed Quotes

BED QUOTES

quotations about beds

Bed is the poor man's opera.

ITALIAN PROVERB

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I'm still in bed writing this, lying on my back like an omelette in a pan.

ALAIN BREMOND-TORRENT

running is flying intermittently

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You can be mad in the morning
Or the afternoon instead
But don't leave me
98 and 6 degrees of separation from you, baby
Come back to bed

JOHN MAYER

"Come Back to Bed"

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People who think of beds only in terms of sexual exercise or sleep simply do not understand that a bed is the best of all places for a philosophical discussion, an argument, and if necessary a showdown. It was not by chance that so many kings of old administered justice from their beds, and even today there is something splendidly parliamentary about an assembly of concerned persons in a bed.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

World of Wonders

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My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint.

JOB

Job 7:13

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My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

Fatigue Artist

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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

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If ye need aught, O strangers, speak; for here
Is all that's fitting for a houe like ours;
Warm baths and bed that giveth rest from toil

AESCHYLUS

The Libation-pourers

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If a bed would tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush.

JAMES HOWELL

Proverbs

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I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck,
Kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

SYLVIA PLATH

The Bell Jar

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Oh, bed, oh, bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

THOMAS HOOD

Miss Kilmansegg: Her Dream

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It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.

MIA RYAN

The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown

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Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Old Man and the Sea

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A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind.

T.F. POWYS

Unclay

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If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Zorba the Greek

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You rise to play and go to bed to work.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello

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I'll make your bed a place you can't wait to go
Softer than feathers and as sweet as a rose

DOLLY PARTON

"I'll Make Your Bed"

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In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die