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  • William Shakespeare What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Steve Jobs Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
    Source: Alexander Woollcott, The First Mrs. Tanqueray
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Malthus A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
    Source: Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • William Feather A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Marlene Dietrich A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Bob Dylan A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Charles Lamb A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Fidel Castro A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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