Bedfellow Quotes & Sayings

In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here. Which is why our miners have to dig so deep. — Suzanne Collins

Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach

Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. — Mindy Greenstein

And if literature is not the Bride and Bedfellow of Truth, what is she? 'Confound it all.' he cried, 'why say Bedfellow when one's already said Bride? Why not simply say what one means and save it? — Virginia Woolf

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals. — Laura Shapiro

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting. — Henry David Thoreau

If you like someone, you wish them well.
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness into them. — Sima Mittal

Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place — Jamie O'Neill

Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. — Mikhail Bakunin

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. — Barack Obama

... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow. — Jasper Fforde

There's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool. — Will Forte

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. — Vicki Baum

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you. — Brigham Young

Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow. When I'm not there, you can sleep with my wife. — William Shakespeare

Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Skepticism is history's bedfellow. — Edgar Saltus

Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion. — Lao-Tzu

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. — Cotton Mather

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" — Ambrose Bierce

And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help. — Cassandra Clare

... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity. — Peter Ackroyd

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow. — M. Thomas Gammarino

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God's plans. — Sunday Adelaja

... if I cannot be with my sister, then I don't want any bedfellow at all. — Philippa Gregory

The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me. — Philippa Gregory

Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass. — Charlaine Harris