quotations about beds
If it's softer than ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Clash of Kings
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets.
RUPERT BROOKE
The Great Lover
I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Pulp
Whose bed have your boots been under?
And whose heart did you steal I wonder?
This time did it feel like thunder, baby?
Whose bed have your boots been under?
SHANIA TWAIN
"Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?"
The sun has gone
To bed and so must I
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN & RICHARD RODGERS
"So Long, Farewell"
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Take thou of me, sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light,
A rosy garland and a weary head.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Astrophel and Stella
You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Trout Fishing in America
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Miscellanies
She love de big bed, she love de big bed ay ay
Rolling, rolling, rolling in our big bed
GENERAL PUBLIC
"Big Bed"
I love you to the moon and bed.
C.J. CARLYON
The Cherry House
I lower myself onto the bed, sinking as a stone sinks, then slowly bring my legs up over the edge and lie back. Once my aching shoulders hit the mattress the ache turns sweet. Ah, the relief, the luxury of not having to bear my own weight.
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
Fatigue Artist
it's so hard to get out of bed
with you there
PHEN WESTON
Under the Rose
If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
G.K. CHESTERTON
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
Hear a song, or watch a stage,
Leave some words upon a page,
Claim a foe, or hail a friend--
Bed awaits me at the end.
DOROTHY PARKER
The Portable Dorothy Parker
We're good in bed. That used to seem like a big deal to me. But we're also good out of it, and now that seems like a bigger deal.
STEPHEN KING
It
For I've been born and I've been wed--
All of man's peril comes in bed.
C.H. WEBB
Dum Vivimus Vigilamus
Many a man gets up on the wrong side of the bed because he doesn't get into it early enough.
EVAN ESAR
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