Quotes about mattress (16 Quotes)



    It's like keeping your money under the mattress instead of in a bank. Customers already have their data online. It's already tied to the Internet. You're a machine shop in Milwaukee You're on the Internet.

    One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.






    There's so much money on the sideline that these sizable new issues are likely to get attention. That doesn't mean we'll see a huge premium or pop once trading begins. It means the amount and size of the offering looks supportable from institutional investors who need to put their money somewhere other than under the mattress.

    Consider the many special delights a lawn affords soft mattress for a creeping baby worm hatchery for a robin croquet or badminton court baseball diamond restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge green shadows - 'This lawn, a carpet all alive With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet.

    One time after one of these long trips, my wife and I had been separated for a long time and I called her and said, 'Baby, you better meet me at the gate with a mattress, ... And she goes, 'You better be the first guy off that plane.'


    COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient. This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall May life be to them a succession of hurts May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. --K. Q.



    I don't think it's a good idea to take a lot of cash out of your bank and put it under your mattress. Why Because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does insure up to 100,000 of your money in the bank -- but it doesn't insure your mattress.




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