Bed Quotes

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

I do not like to go to bed without you. But somehow, lately, even when I’m with you, I seem to go to bed without you. (Letter to her husband, Henry Luce)

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.

It is a good plan to print this well-known exhortation in large letters and hang it on the wall opposite your bed. And if that fails, as I am told it sometimes does, another good plan is to buy the loudest alarm clock you can get and place it in such a position that you […]

You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes. (Twelfth Night)

But someone came to me and said “The little fishes are in bed.” I said to him, and I said it plain “Then you must wake them up again.” I said it very loud and clear, I went and shouted in his ear. But he was very stiff and proud, He said “You needn’t shout […]

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

Did you ever sleep at the foot of the bed? When the weather was a-whizzin’cold, When the wind was whistlin’around the house, And the moon was as “yeller” as gold? You give your good warm mattress up To Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Fred, Too many kinfolks on a bad night, So you went to the […]