Feather Bed Quotes

#1. He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.

Charles Darwin

#2. When I get up in the morning, I go right back to bed again. I feel best in the evening the moment I put out the light and pull the feather-bed over my head. I sit up once more, look around the room with indescribable satisfaction, and then good night, down under the feather-bed.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. till, silently
without one peep, the angels come, their watch to keep.
They'll hold you safe while dreaming deep. The pillow cool beneath your head,
all star lit is your feather bed which glides the moonbeams like a sled,
above towns which glitter blue and red.

Dixie Dawn Miller Goode

#4. We resumed our steady march through the sleeping street. Boulder City was incredibly quiet. If Vegas was the city that never slept, then Boulder made up for it. It slept like a drunkard on a feather bed. We hadn't even been barked at.

Amy Harmon

#5. He slept curled up on the hard rock more soundly than ever he had done on his feather-bed in his own little hole at home. But all night he dreamed of his own house and wandered in his sleep into all his different rooms looking for something that he could not find nor remember what it looked like.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

#7. Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.

Clive Barker

#8. Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

John Cleveland

#9. I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#10. A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").

Bill Bryson

#11. There is nothing more delightful in life than a feather bed and an open fire - except a feather bed with a warm and tender lover in it.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.

Thomas Watson

#13. For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

David Salle

#14. Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Edith Wharton

#15. One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God has
dominion over the universe.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

John Lyly

#17. After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather's barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded by lovely women. He thought he'd died and regretted every time he'd ever cursed Maribor's name.

Michael J. Sullivan

#18. Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.

Louise Hay

#19. You must have brought the bad weather with you
The sky's the color of lead
All you've left me is a feather
On an unmade bed

Tom Waits

#20. He sighed raggedly. 'Do you ever give up?'
'No.'
'Do you ever go away?'
'No.'
'Do you ever do as you're told?'
'Not if I can help it.'
'Thank God.

Loretta Hill

#21. Just in case you get any ideas, know that I'll be sleeping with a can of Mace in one hand and pepper spray in the other." - Katie
Jorlan's expression turned mocking. "Just in case you get any ideas, know that I'll be sleeping with a feather in one hand and massage oil in the other.

Gena Showalter

#22. Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#23. Some people have blond hair. Some people are really good at baseball. Some people find nothing more pleasurable than organizing a drawer full of buttons. Some people are assholes. This is the human spectrum.

Kelly Williams Brown

#24. In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Lord Byron

#25. The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card