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Bed: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.— THOMAS ADY — A Cradle in the Dark.

C. P. 58 (London, 1656). 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.— ISAAC DE BENSERADE — Translated by

Dr. Johnson. To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.— NICHOLAS BRETON — Court and County.

(1618: reprint.) P. 183. Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto II. L. 871.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.— HOOD — Miss Kilmansegg. Her Dream.

Night is the time for rest; How sweet, when labors close, To gather round an aching breast The curtain of repose. Stretch the tir'd limbs and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed!— JAMES MONTGOMERY — Night.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. i. NAPOLEON I.