Bedfellows Quotes:

Politics make strange bedfellows.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Slave, Trading, Bedfellows

Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Sex, Bedfellows, Attraction

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Funny, Depression, Husband, Strange Bedfellows, Misers

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Adversity, Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Poor, Found, Fear And Faith, Bedfellows

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

- Goodman Ace

topic: Bedfellows

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Marriage, Crazy, Strange Bedfellows, Perfect Marriage

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

topic: Distance, Animal, Rocks, Quantum Physics, Ancient Wisdom

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

- Michel de Montaigne

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

topic: Quiet, Tranquility, Fame, Peace And Tranquility, Bedfellows

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

- Marcel Achard

topic: Political, Way, Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Courtship

war makes strangers bedfellows ...

- Kathleen Winsor

topic: War, Stranger, Bedfellows

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

topic: Art, Thinking, Reality, Verdi, Bedfellows

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Fun, Strange, Mickey, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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

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

topic: Dream, Nudge Nudge, Friendly, Nudge, Fudge

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

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Art, Clouds, Shame, Bedfellows

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

topic: Christian, Party, Two, Strange Bedfellows, Common Enemy

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

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

topic: Respect, Littles, Matter, Bedfellows

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

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

topic: Thinking, Perfect, Darkness, Bedfellows

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

topic: Home, Weather, Two, Cold Weather, Bedfellows

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

- Eric Maisel

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

topic: Art, Business, Rooms, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

- Edgar Saltus

topic: History, Skepticism, Bedfellows

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

- Cotton Mather

topic: Children, Devil, Bed, Bedfellows

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

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

topic: Track, Together, Sound, Bedfellows

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

topic: Fighting, Artist, Media, Bedfellows

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Poverty, Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

- Billy Zane

source: Source: www.etonline.com

topic: Expression, Years, Keys, Solicitation, Bedfellows

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

- Kate Elliott

topic: Skills, Wife, Luck, Tedious, Bedfellows

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

- Philip Jose Farmer

source: "The Fabulous Riverboat". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1971.

topic: Strange, Resurrection, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Art, Drama, Office, Annual Reports, Bedfellows

What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf) Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron) I thought that was politics. (Wulf) It’s both. (Acheron)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Dark, Hunters, Alliances, Strange Bedfellows, Dark Hunter

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

- Nick Bantock

topic: Pain, Constant, Bedfellows