Bed Quotes - Page 36

• When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

  Bessie Smith

  Life, Spring, Mean

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• We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Unique, Emotional

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• From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

  Robert Southey

  Devil, Looks, Gone

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1860). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.77

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• April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Loveman, “April Rain”

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

  Robert Burns

  Victory, Battle, Welcome

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799) (also known as 'Scots, Wha Hae')

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• The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wall, Night, Doors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1805). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Etc”, p.32

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• At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

  Marcus Aurelius

  Work, Men, Light

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Ocean

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

  Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Dream, Wine, Light

  Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873). “The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman”, p.195

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• Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Morning, Moving

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Physicians

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Love, Lying, Cry

  Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43

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• What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

  John Donne

  Marriage, Sight, Tickling

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.320, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

  Spider Robinson

  Fun, Smart, Hard Work

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• One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Crush, Jesus

  "How to stop worrying & start living".

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• Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

  Grant Morrison

  Time, Hurt, Lying

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• Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

  Chief Seattle

  Night, Waste, One Night

  Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”

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• Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• I don't care about the fact that a dogs place is not in a bed - the closer they are to me, the more beautiful it is.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Beautiful, Dog, Care

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• Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
  Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
  No lying about your age, more lying around the house
  After lying much longer in bed

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Lying, Congratulations

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• I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Father, Great Love, Would Be

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed.

  Sir Harry Lauder

  Nice, Lying, Get Up

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• Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Lying, Angel, Snow

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.61

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• Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects us from the pine needles and beetles, but it also obscures them, as well as the soft moss, fragrant soil, and the teeming complexity of nature's bed. In moments, however, we catch glints and feel the breezes of something more direct, something outside that self system.

  Greg Kramer

  Knowing, Self, Meditation

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