Quotes about bed
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Source: Rules of Attraction
“She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk”
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Source: Magic Burns
Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.
Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.”
Source: Honor's Splendour
“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”
Source: Notorious Pleasures
“I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.”
Source: Water for Elephants
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
Source: Under Her Skin
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
First lines
Variant translation (by David Wyllie): One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)
“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”
Source: The Warrior Heir
Source: Darkness, Be My Friend
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
“It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
Variant: Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
Source: The Strange Power
Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 3
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
"Drown Soda"
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilations
“…and you may sleep quietly in your beds.”
Speech at The Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, regarding the threat of invasion.
p. 83. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n113/mode/1up
The phrase 'Sleep quiet in your beds' appears in Records, p. 85 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n116/mode/1up and Memories, p. 202. https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/202/mode/1up
The phrase 'So sleep easy in your beds' was used for the title for the sixth episode of the BBC documentary The Great War.
Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up
"Magnolias from Moscow", p. 403
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)