Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
Works (c. 1530)
Sometimes paraphrased "A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."
Source: Honor's Splendour
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
Works (c. 1530)
Sometimes paraphrased "A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) Austrian writer
The Struggle with the Demon [Der Kampf mit dem Daemon] (1929), p. 256, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Journal to Stella (November 8, 1710)
“I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer
Source: Notorious Pleasures
“Do you often sleep tied to the bed?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Variant: He waved a hand at the ropes. “Do you often sleep tied to the bed?
Source: Clockwork Angel
“I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer