"You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
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"If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, I’d have my driver run them over. Twice."
"I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade"
"Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?"
"Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed."
"When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war."
"It was a cheesy cheeseball, covered with Cheez Whiz and served on a bed of Cheez-Its. With a side of queso."
"I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies."
"For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness."
"I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed."
"I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed."
"He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is."
"He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life."
"In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is."
"They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them."
"One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight."