Quotes about bed
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“She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed.
- Kaia Skyhawk”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

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Sherman Alexie photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Aleister Crowley photo
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John Keats photo

“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: The Complete Poems

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“Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

Cassandra Clare photo

“Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

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Jerome K. Jerome photo
Steven Erikson photo
Richelle Mead photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Elizabeth Hoyt photo

“If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Notorious Pleasures

Richelle Mead photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Rick Riordan photo
Shunryu Suzuki photo

“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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Elizabeth Gilbert photo
George Carlin photo
James Thurber photo

“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"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

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Sue Monk Kidd photo
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“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”

David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd

Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

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Janet Fitch photo
Cassandra Clare photo
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Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie photo
Richelle Mead photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Nora Roberts photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Jerome K. Jerome photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Stephen King photo
Diana Gabaldon photo
Franz Kafka photo

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.”

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)

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“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Warrior Heir

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Frank O'Hara photo
Derek Landy photo
Brian Andreas photo
Michael Ondaatje photo
Lin Yutang photo
Margaret Atwood photo
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Charles Bukowski photo
Rick Riordan photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Laurie Halse Anderson photo

“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
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“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.”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

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.

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Jodi Picoult photo
Hans Christian Andersen photo
Homér photo
George Carlin photo
Diana Gabaldon photo
Eugene Field photo
Junot Díaz photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Bob Dylan photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Anthony Burgess photo
Courtney Love photo

“It's my lie and I believe in it
It's my lie and I wanted it
It's my bed and I'll bleed in it
It's my bed, and I'll lie
And I sit on the corner
And I drink drown soda
I wanna bomb the whole state of Minnesota”

Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist

"Drown Soda"
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilations

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“…and you may sleep quietly in your beds.”

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet

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

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