quotations about beds
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
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Night
Some dark Presence watching by my bed,
The awful image of a nameless dread
WILLIAM MARSHALL
The Far Away Man
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it, completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind.
MARCEL PROUST
Pleasures and Regrets
What angel wakes me from my flow'ry bed?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
For I've been born and I've been wed--
All of man's peril comes in bed.
C.H. WEBB
Dum Vivimus Vigilamus
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
Bed is a medicine.
ITALIAN PROVERB
If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil
Nothing makes a bed more comfortable than the ringing of an alarm clock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Uneasy lies the head that eats crackers while in bed.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Many a man gets up on the wrong side of the bed because he doesn't get into it early enough.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.
REBECCA TIMBERLAKE
Bookish Hearts
Would you have a settled head,
You must early go to bed;
I tell you, and I tell 't again,
You must be in bed at ten.
NICHOLAS CULPEPER
Letters to Stella
I like to do things in bed. I fold the laundry on the bed. Food tastes better to me when I'm under the covers. Bed is the only place to read, the best place to talk on the phone.
ELIZABETH BERG
Range of Motion
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.
STEFAN ZWEIG
The Burning Secret and Other Stories
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
Warm beds, beds to charm away fatigue.
AESCHYLUS
Choephori
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
The Bed
I wonder if you still think about us,
the way I do.
How our legs would crash
into each other in the middle
of the night, and how we ended
up creating the moon in the
confines of our beds.
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN
The Sky Is Purple