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Quotes About Bed

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Many a morning I found myself waking up in America and being surprised to find myself in a bed. I had been having nightmares all night long, and I didn't know where I was. It would take me awhile to adjust, because I couldn't believe I was in a bed. What was I doing in a bed? After the war I never slept more than three or four hours a night. In
~ Charles Brandt
One night Jimmy wasn't supposed to be coming home and I had a gallon of wine in the window cooling off. Jimmy came in while I was asleep and the noise of him coming in woke me up. When he got in bed he said, "What's that in the window?" I said, "I think it's the moon, Jimmy." Sam and Bill said I got away with more shit with Jimmy than anybody else did. Jimmy
~ Charles Brandt
Sheep are under the bed, but the wolf is on the bed.
~ Charles de Leusse
Sheep are under the bed, but the wolf is on the bed. (Les moutons sont sous le lit. Mais le loup est sur le lit)
~ Charles de Leusse
No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.
~ Charles Dickens
Why, Affery, woman—Affery! You have been getting out of bed in your sleep, my dear! I come up, after having fallen asleep myself, below, and find you in your wrapper here, with the nightmare. Affery, woman,' said Mr Flintwinch, with a friendly grin on his expressive countenance, 'if you ever have a dream of this sort again, it'll be a sign of your being in want of physic. And I'll give you such a dose, old woman—such a dose!
~ Charles Dickens
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.
~ Dan Salomon, unverified
Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with success like that?
~ Terri Guillemets
When our bed is made it's covered in forty pillows like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
~ Jim Gaffigan, King Baby, 2009
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Ouderdom). Tussen klok en bed.
~ Gospodinov Georgi
My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.
~ Groucho Marx
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
~ Groucho Marx
Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.
~ James Joyce
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur — nuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy.
~ James Joyce
Maybe you'll have better luck dealing with the dead than I. They go where they want. They sit on your bed at night and stand behind you in the mirror. Once they locate you, they never rest. And you know what's worse about them?" He smiled at me and didn't reply. "When it's your time, they'll be your escorts, and they won't be delivering you to a very good place. The dead are not given to mercy.
~ James Lee Burke
The girls can have the bed, Gazzy said. Iggy and I can sleep on the floor. Excuse me, sexist piglet? I said, raising my eyebrows. How about the two smallest people share the bed 'cause they'll fit . That would be you and Angel. Yeah, said Nudge Like, I'm too much of a cream puff to sleep on the floor?
~ James Patterson
we'd all agreed that a bed without rails was age appropriate.
~ James Patterson
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.
~ Euripides
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
~ Janet Evanovich
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
~ John Steinbeck