furniture quotes

11 quotes

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

William Shakespeare

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Mark Zuckerberg

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.

Dave Grohl

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Brian Eno

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

Douglas Adams

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein