| "I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands." »Darius Ogden Mills |
| "We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you." »Helen Rowland |
| "Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts." »William Shakespeare |
| "I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor |
| "That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect." »La Bruyere |
| "Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands" »Patrick Henry |
| "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." »Alexander Pope |
| "lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough" »William Shakespeare |
| "If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened." »Mark Twain |
| "There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »Sidney Greenberg |
| "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places." »Samuel Butler |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »David Brink |
| "one of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." »E. V. Lucas |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." »David McClure Brinkley |
| "To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd." »Thomas Herrick |
| "If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools." »John Billings |
| "The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." »Alexander Pope |
| "Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay." »Millard Fuller |
| "The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "The world is too much with us late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon" »William Wordsworth |
| "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton |
| "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." »Jesus |
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