quotations about beds
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"
Many a man gets up on the wrong side of the bed because he doesn't get into it early enough.
EVAN ESAR
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If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.
MARCEL PROUST
Jean Santeuil
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
Bed is a medicine.
ITALIAN PROVERB
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
Gallegher
I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.
REBECCA TIMBERLAKE
Bookish Hearts
Ample make this Bed--
Make this Bed with Awe--
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
What angel wakes me from my flow'ry bed?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Down on our own delightful bed.
JAMES MONTGOMERY
Night
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
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
Nothing makes a bed more comfortable than the ringing of an alarm clock.
EVAN ESAR
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Some dark Presence watching by my bed,
The awful image of a nameless dread
WILLIAM MARSHALL
The Far Away Man
Would you have a settled head,
You must early go to bed;
I tell you, and I tell 't again,
You must be in bed at ten.
NICHOLAS CULPEPER
Letters to Stella
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
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
To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
Warm beds, beds to charm away fatigue.
AESCHYLUS
Choephori
Uneasy lies the head that eats crackers while in bed.
EVAN ESAR
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