Lay Quotes - page 2

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. (Havelock Ellis)
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. View quote
Mark Twain
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. View quote
Dan Brown
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. View quote
David Brinkley
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. View quote
Eben Alexander
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. View quote
Jean Piaget
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. (Frank Zappa)
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. View quote
George Stephenson
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. View quote
Nancy Reagan
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. View quote
Rufus Choate
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
O woman-country wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead. (Robert Browning)
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. View quote
Charles Wolfe
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. View quote
Denis Leary
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other. View quote
Michael Chabon