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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


Samuel Johnson

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ISAAC DE BENSERADE The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANT We went to bed to late to go to bed early :)
KEN O. ELDIB Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE F. BURNS STUDENTS OUT OF BED! STUDENTS OUT OF BED IN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!
J.K. ROWLING Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC I'm going to bed, where I may die.
DIANA WYNNE JONES Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.
AMANDA LEAR We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very nex...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady
WILSON MIZNER Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
FRANK LANGELLA I thought, 'This woman didn't die in this bed,'
RICK FITZGERALD If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said ...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
THOMAS HOOD What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it...
MIHAIL SEBASTIAN We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Sh...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
PROVERB We certainly have a bed for him in our segregation unit.
BILL MISKELL People are so stubborn they would rather sleep in their bed of nails rather than in my bed of flower...
ANDONI GARCIA He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;
But he...
JOHN FLETCHER All I can think about is bed.”
“We’re sharing the same thought.”
“You’re think...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.
CARL SANDBURG We spend one-third of our lives in bed and they get dirty.
ALLAN WRIGHT The other trick is not to go to bed until you're tired. It's counterproductive to lie in bed awake.
DR. ERIC OLSON People would rather sleep In their bed of nails rather than in my bed of flowers simply because a fe...
ANDONI GARCIA Ample make this bed. / Make this bed with awe; / In it wait till judgement break / Excellent and fai...
EMILY DICKINSON What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adver...
GERALD MCKNIGHT The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make u...
OGDEN NASH Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.
JOHN DOBBIN Bed is the poor man's opera
ITALIAN PROVERB No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their...
ERMA BOMBECK The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in th...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead
JAMES THURBER The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and tri...
MAX LERNER Beds do not matter, it is who is in a bed that counts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A little girl was being treated for shrapnel wounds and while she was in her bed a stray bullet hit ...
ALEXANDRE LIEBESKIND Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed
GROUCHO MARX Plus you can fix your own meal, and you have your own bed. You're still in your own surroundings.
BARRY LARKIN There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I just don't know yet, ... I'll probably just flip a coin before I go to bed. ... They both had a gr...
JACK DANIELS Now she can stand up, if she holds onto the bed.
BETTY ELLIS Edna has to be lifted out of bed and into her wheelchair and back. I can't do that.
BETTY ELLIS Are you so in bed with the drug companies and the insurance companies that you just can't pass up an...
MARION BERRY No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
GRACE SLICK I read that I was in bed with her, which is a ton of shit. I have met her and it went like this: 'Ho...
JOHNNY DEPP You flip a coin and you lie in bed and that's a long good-bye - you know?
JOEY SANTIAGO To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow
GRAHAM GREENE Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends-of course, not Paris-would be like, 'Wha...
PARIS HILTON Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's ve...
MICHAEL JACKSON Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone, ... You...
MICHAEL JACKSON I rose at 4 a.m. after getting to bed at 10 p.m. I'm feeling that I seized up going into the axels.
EMANUEL SANDHU Not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
BETTY REESE He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
IRISH SAYINGS As I was snuggling back into my bed after getting up to use the bathroom, I breathed a little, "This...
JAN DENISE Watching him spend the summer of his 17th year laying in bed more often than not and still keeping h...
BOB BRITT I tried to assist from outside but couldn't get her out. She was wrapped up in the bed frame, so I d...
JASON LYNCH You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens...
ANGELINA JOLIE A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.
RUSSIAN PROVERB We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
BILL NIGHY He coached them from the bed and said, 'I don't care if we win a game this year; I want you to stay ...
BRIGHAM YOUNG Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead
FIONA APPLE I went to bed in my sh*thole apartment and I woke up in an actual sh*thole.
LEIGH WHANNELL One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with
HELEN GURLEY BROWN Being married means I can [break wind] and eat ice cream in bed.
BRAD PITT I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and chan...
ELLIOTT GOULD The child was a keen bed-wetter.
NOEL COWARD I like to do things in bed. I fold the laundry on the bed. Food tastes better to me when I'm under t...
ELIZABETH BERG It doesn't mean we're going to end camp -- it's the end of bed-check,
JOE GIBBS There's this nurse standing over Nathanial's bed and she was crying. (Amy) had been keeping track fo...
DEAN THORN After Wilma came through, the whole bed was just soaked.
DEAN DEFORD With the flu, basically you're bed-bound.
DR. BRIAN CURRIE I jumped out of bed and headed for the hospital.
DR. MICHAEL AKHIYAT For my mother's and grandmother's generation, their teeth were in a jar by the bed. They didn't have...
DR. KIMBERLY HARMS I made my bed in Arizona, and I was going to lie in it. But as soon as they didn't name me their fra...
DAVID BOSTON I fell off the bed three times. I'm not used to being up -- I'm used to being down there. This is no...
DIANE LESSIG If a child is still wetting the bed when he's 8, it's usually simply because he sleeps very soundly.
DIANE WESTON He killed a lot of ducks. I'd get thrown out of bed at 2 in the morning by federal wardens.
DOROTHY KILISHEK We talked about this a hundred times ... ‘how do you stop a V-bed?’
DENNIS FLYNN After everything was over we didn't get to bed until about 1:15 a.m.. It's going to be nice to play ...
CHANDLER COLLINS He's sitting up in bed and in relatively good spirits considering.
CRAIG CHRISTENSEN When Jesse Orosco threw up his glove in '86, I was jumping up and down on my bed.
PAUL LO DUCA She's always been one that, from the minute she wakes up to the minute she goes to bed, is always in...
CYLE SAGE He made his own bed and now he has to lie in it. If he says he had tainted supplements, that's fine ...
DAVID NEWHAN Microprocessors are one of the most difficult things to manufacture. It is easy to fall out of bed.
DAN HUTCHESON What's with the Raggedy Ann on the bed? That's terrible!
FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO The bulk went to apartments with staff, and others went to one of three eight-bed group homes.
GAYLA HARKIN But every black cloud has a silver lining. In my case, I had a whole three-bed cabin to myself. I ha...
GAOSITWE CHIEPE He gets called into the bedroom. There lying in the bed is his stepmother, naked, and he's told that...
GARY MITCHELL His bed was a mattress stacked on a couple of old TV sets.
FRED BARZYK It's just like when we're back here at the firehouse. At nighttime you go to bed--some nights you mi...
GLENN TSCHANN Always buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed as if you aren't in one you are in the other
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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