Lay Quotes

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. (Isaac Newton)
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. View quote
Groucho Marx
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. View quote
Karel Čapek
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! View quote
Alexander Pope
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. View quote
Dorothy Parker
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. View quote
William Cowper
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. (Boris Pasternak)
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. View quote
Izaak Walton
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? View quote
Charlie Sheen
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? View quote
Charles de Lint
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. View quote
William Hazlitt
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. View quote
George Washington
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. View quote
Edith Evans
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. View quote
François Fénelon
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. (Henry Fielding)
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. View quote
Texas Guinan
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. View quote
Alexander Smith
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. View quote
William Osler
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. View quote
Thomas Hobbes