Bedfellows Quotes

• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Depression, Husband

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

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• Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

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• Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Poor, Found

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.177, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

  Goodman Ace

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

  Huston Smith

  Distance, Animal, Rocks

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• Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Quiet, Tranquility, Fame

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

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• The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

  Marcel Achard

  Political, Politics, Way

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• War makes strangers bedfellows.

  Kathleen Winsor

  War, Stranger

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• Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Strange, Mickey

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• 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

  Dream, Nudge Nudge, Friendly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.74, University of Georgia Press

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• Politics make strange bedfellows.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Strange, Strange Bedfellows

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• There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

  Amanda Palmer

  Art, Clouds, Shame

  "Amanda Palmer: 'Thank God my best friend's a therapist'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

  Steven Pinker

  Christian, Party, Two

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• 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

  Respect, Littles, Matter

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Perfect, Darkness

  "'I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy'". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

  George Mason

  Home, Weather, Two

  Letter to his cousin, James Mercer, February 5, 1780.

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• Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Business, Rooms

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Politics makes strange bedfellows.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Politics, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

  My Summer in a Garden "FifteenthWeek" (1870) See Proverbs 237

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• Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

  Chinua Achebe

  Slave, Trading

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• Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

  Edgar Saltus

  History, Skepticism

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

  Cotton Mather

  Children, Devil, Bed

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• I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

  Bryan Ferry

  Track, Together, Sound

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  Annie Lennox

  Fighting, Artist, Media

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