I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

-Agate,James
  Journal entry, 9  Jun. Collected in Ego 6 (1944).

Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤   cua¤  les viven, yo no se¤   cua¤  l ha muerto. Me llorare¤   a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

-Agustini, Delmira
  El rosario de Eros,'Mis amores' ('My lovers').

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'Once in Royal David's City'.

Westron winde, when wilt thou blow, The smalle raine downe can raine? Christ if my love were in my armes, And I in my bed againe.

-Anonymous
c.1500  Untitled lyric.

Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'The Last  Word'.

'Oh, mother, mother, mak my bed, And mak it saft and narrow; My love has died for me to-day, I'll die for him tomorrow.'

-Ballads
'Barbara  Allen'.

'A bed, a bed,'Clerk Sanders said, 'A bed for you and me!' 'Fye na, fye na,'said may Margaret, 'Till anes we married be!'

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

-Ballads
'Clerk Sanders'.

   My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents†is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
  Chips Off the Old Benchley,'Safety Second'.

   Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If Isay, Surely the darknessshall cover me; even thenight shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms139:7^12.

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 5:8.

Best bloody place is bloody bed, With bloody ice on bloody head, You might as well be bloody dead, In bloody Orkney.

-Blair, Hamish pseudonym of  Andrew James Fraser Blair
  'The Bloody Orkneys', last stanza. First published in Arnold Silcock Verse and Worse,'Queer People'.

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Sick Rose'.

   When Harriet goes to bed with a man, she always takes her wet blanket with her.

-Broyard, Anatole
  On a character in Iris Owen's  After Claude (1973).  Aroused by Books.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed,ö Or to victorie!ö Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and Slaverie!

-Burns, Robert
  'Bruce's  Address at Bannockburn', stanza1.

   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.

-Cheever,JohnWilliam
  Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'On Lying In Bed'.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

-Davies, Robertson
Interviewed by Terence M Green, recorded in  J Madison Davis (ed) Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989).

I have no humour to marry; I love to lie o' both sides of the bed myself; and again, o'th'other side.

-Dekker,Thomas
The Roaring Girl (with Thomas Middleton), act 2, sc.2.

Ample make this Bedö Make this Bed with Aweö In it wait till Judgement break Excellent and Fair.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1864  Complete Poems, no.829 (first published1891).