quotations about beds
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
All I've got is a s-s-single bed
There ain't no room for your sweet head
Now ain't it a shame you missed the last train?
'Cause all I've got is a s-s-single bed
BANANARAMA
"S-s-s-single Bed"
I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.
REBECCA TIMBERLAKE
Bookish Hearts
Some dark Presence watching by my bed,
The awful image of a nameless dread
WILLIAM MARSHALL
The Far Away Man
The day is done
The sun is down
The curtains have been drawn
And darkness has descended over everything in town
The covers have been turned and I've got my pajamas on
I've had my fun
I've stretched and yawned and all is said and done
I'm going to bed
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
"Bed Bed Bed"
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
Ample make this Bed--
Make this Bed with Awe--
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER
"Speculative Finale", The Sadeian Woman
What angel wakes me from my flow'ry bed?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bed is a medicine.
ITALIAN PROVERB
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
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
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Night
It's the table and the bed that count in life. And everything else we do, we do so we can get back to the table, back to the bed.
MARLENA DE BLASI
A Thousand Days in Tuscany
Nothing makes a bed more comfortable than the ringing of an alarm clock.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Gallegher
Uneasy lies the head that eats crackers while in bed.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
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