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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. -- Francis Quarles
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. -- Siegfried Sassoon
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. -- Frank Knox
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -- George Orwell
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. -- Georges Duhamel
With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. -- Richard Branson
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. -- Joan Rivers
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. -- George Orwell
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? -- James Harvey Robinson
Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest. -- Pham Nhat Vuong
Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. -- Joan Rivers
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. -- Moshe Dayan
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. -- Steve Zahn
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. -- Brian Skerry
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. -- Shashi Tharoor
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties. -- Edmund White
We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it. -- Mike Nichols
The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds. -- John Niven
I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds. -- Joan Lunden
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! -- Susan Orlean
Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds. -- Robin Leach
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response. -- Terry Eagleton
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? -- Sylvia Earle
Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always. -- Bill Simmons
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles. -- Samuel Richardson
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. -- Edward Albee
My bed is actually two king beds put together. -- Cindy Margolis
I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus. -- Charles Lamb
...beds last on an average much longer than marriages... -- Michel Houellebecq
She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are. -- Malcolm Bradbury
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette. -- Goodale Sisters
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds. -- William C. Bryant
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink. -- Rupert Brooke
In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination. -- Louis J. Camuti
Cruel young men usually sit on their beds with their riding boots. -- Pet TorreS
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. -- Marie Antoinette
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable. -- William Carlos Williams
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds. -- Margaret Mead
We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas -- Red Skelton
I'd like to do a job where I don't have to tie women to beds. -- Jamie Dornan
My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk. -- Rolonda Watts
To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight. -- Celia Thaxter
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. -- Francis Quarles
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds. -- Suetonius
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment. -- Olivia Wilde
In our natural Adamic state, we are not on our sick beds. We are in the grave. -- Keith Mathison
Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of. -- Denis Waitley
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival -- Nora Gallagher
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. -- Art Linkletter
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. -- Clement Clarke Moore
My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds. -- Joan Rivers
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown. -- Francis Quarles
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. -- Bob Dylan
Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them. -- Lisa Kleypas
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory. -- Cindy Gerard
The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds. -- William Herschel
Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases. -- Rose George
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. -- Hilaire Belloc
The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars. -- George Elliott Clarke
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. -- Mira Nair
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. -- Elbert Hubbard
The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay. -- William Butler Yeats
Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ... -- Phoebe Cary
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? -- Isaac Watts
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
Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that! -- Neil Gaiman
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees. -- Ruta Sepetys
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not! -- Laura E. Richards
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. -- Richard Branson
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom. -- Sally Ride
I can't leave the house without making sure all the beds are made right, so they are neat and fresh when I come in at night. -- Jason Donovan
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich
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. -- Honore de Balzac
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it. -- Charles Bukowski
We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war. -- Daniel Tosh
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels. -- Henry David Thoreau
I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds. -- Kaley Cuoco
My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ...groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises. -- Graham Stuart Thomas
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within. -- Alfred Thayer Mahan
As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that. -- Henry Winkler
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. -- Thomas R. Insel
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. -- Dilys Laing
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond. -- J.G. Farrell
No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny." -- Mike Corbett
No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. -- Mike Corbett
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it. -- Jack Handey
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps. -- Patti Davis
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read. -- Donita K. Paul
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines. -- Lynn Woolsey
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water. -- Manoj Bhargava
I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers. -- Jandy Nelson
The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. -- Sara Teasdale
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. -- Clement Attlee
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain. -- George R. R. Martin
Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth -- Christiane Northrup
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. -- Neil Gaiman
Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. -- Charlotte Bronte
If you want one thing too much itâ??s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilkâ??and feisty gentlemen. -- Larry McMurtry
I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal. -- Princess Diana
Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices. -- C.P. Cavafy
Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation? -- Isaac Barrow
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us? -- Alex Gibney
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Body, remember not only how much you were loved Not only the beds you lay on, But also those desires glowing openly In eyes that looked at you Trembling for you in voices -- Constantine Peter Cavafy
Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan could have an identical twin; there could be kids who looked like his parents' childhood pictures. The bunk beds were impossible. -- Margaret Peterson Haddix
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. -- J. K. Rowling
The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.' -- Amanda Donohoe
Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell. -- Edward Young

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