Top 75 Marriage Bed Quotes
#1. There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.
George Santayana
#2. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.
Euripides
#3. On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, ... they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.
C.S. Lewis
#5. What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
John Donne
#7. If I become king, do I have to ask your guards and your ladies permission each time I want to touch you in my marriage bed?"
Her eyes blazed. "When you become my king, Finnikin, you can touch me whenever you want. Wherever you want.
Melina Marchetta
#8. Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.
George R R Martin
#9. The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,
Margaret Sanger
#10. I who all the Winter through,
Cherished other loves than you
And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;
Now I know the false and true,
For the earnest sun looks through,
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#11. If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty.
George R R Martin
#12. The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.
Ilona Andrews
#13. For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
Aeschylus
#14. Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.
Freya Stark
#15. Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.
Sophocles
#16. For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
Aeschylus
#17. Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
William Shakespeare
#18. I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.
Frederick Barthelme
#20. You married me, Christa. Marriage! It was a serious step. I warned you. As the saying goes, madam, you've made your bed. You're going to lie in it. You understand what I mean, Christa. I know you do.
Heather Graham
#21. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
Samuel Butler
#22. Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.
Isman H. Suryaman
#23. This is a terribly dangerous journey" said Bjorn, "and few would have the courage to make it except you and me". His wife said, "if you let Kari down, you had better realise that you will never be allowed into my bed again, and that my kinsmen will force a division of property between us
Anonymous
#24. Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#25. There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.
Gretchen Rubin
#26. From flophouse bed
To poorhouse bread,
all outhouse sorrow:
I thee wed.
Roman Payne
#27. When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.
Mark Driscoll
#29. (Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)
Ada Calhoun
#30. Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.
Gillian Flynn
#31. Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."
He went straight to bed.
Charlie Carillo
#32. Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
For each an imagined image brings
And finds a real image there ...
William Butler Yeats
#33. We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home, and she's going to be doing all that.'
Tia Mowry
#34. If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."
Daniel Kahneman
#36. How is it you've never married?" A soft splash. "It's an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down.
Tessa Dare
#37. For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.
Ray Romano
#38. How about this then." Chase shifted on the bed. Even without looking, Connie knew he was leaning over earnestly, his brilliant, lying black eyes full of sincerity. "I've missed you desperately. I'm overjoyed to find you again. Will you marry me?
Zoe Chant
#39. They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.
Tom Thumb
#40. Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage?
Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.
Janet Evanovich
#41. One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
M. M. Musselman
#42. For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#43. Didn't she know?
"Yes" to dinner today.
"Yes" to marriage tomorrow.
Dammit, he had a schedule to keep.
A schedule that involved getting her sweet ass into bed as fast as humanly possible.
Shelly Laurenston
#44. I want forever with you. I want to wake up next to you every morning and go to bed beside you every night. I want to wear a ring on my finger every day of my life marking me as yours. I want to make you promises, and I want to spend every day of my life working to keep those promises.
Chanel Cleeton
#45. If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#46. On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex flags from across the room.
Richard Price
#47. Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
Markus Zusak
#48. Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.
Diana Trilling
#49. You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam
#50. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
Lenny Bruce
#51. Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.
Charlotte Lamb
#52. There in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage.
Martin Amis
#53. Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
Howard Stringer
#54. Whom she will be my next wife, will marry my attorney on paper and marry me on the bed.
Hf
#55. Life was pretty perfect. All because a sexy chick broke her abstinence pledge to enjoy a night of fun. One hot roll in bed blossomed into love, marriage, and quite a few baby carriages. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Bijou Hunter
#56. I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
Mae West
#57. Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#58. It might do wonders for your marriage," Amelia continued. "It's lovely to talk to your husband after you've been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything." - Amelia to Poppy
Lisa Kleypas
#59. Franny and Leo didn't talk about marriage, except sometimes sentimentally in bed, his hands spreading wide across her back, and even then it was only to say how quickly they would have married had it not been for the future and the past. What
Ann Patchett
#60. I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
H.L. Mencken
#62. And buxom, which means only obedient, is now made, in familiar phrases, to stand for wanton; because in an ancient form of marriage, before the Reformation, the bride promised complaisance and obedience, in these terms: "I will be bonair and buxom in bed and at board.
Samuel Johnson
#63. The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
Roman Payne
#64. I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.
Garry Shandling
#65. Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.
Jeffrey Rasley
#66. When my marriage broke up ... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.
Lisa Ann Walter
#67. Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.
Michael Perry
#68. - My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.
- Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
Laurence Sterne
#69. She suggested we 'crouch' buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows.
Now, my husband can't see all that well in the dark. I think if he comes into a darkened bedroom and finds 140 pounds of cellulite hurtling through space at him, he's going to run like the devil.
Celia Rivenbark
#70. Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
Juvenal
#71. I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed - not sex - but sex was how we got there.
Amy Hempel
#72. I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
Mark Twain
#73. I want a husband to warm my bed, and my bed alone.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.
Leonard Gardner
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