Showing posts with label Bed Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bed Quotes. Show all posts

The happiest part of a man's l...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
~Samuel Johnson~

The happiest part of a man's l...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
~Samuel Johnson~

The bed has become a place of ...

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
~Napoleon~

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, ap...

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
~Rose Macaulay~

It is comforting when one has ...

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. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
~Marcel Proust~

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry...

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
~Isaac De Benserade~

I have thought of a pulley to ...

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.
~Samuel Johnson~

How it is I know not; but ther...

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. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.
~Herman Melville~

For I've been born and I've be...

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.
~C. H. Webb~