| "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 |
| "Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler |
| "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman |
| "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." »Dean Gooderham Acheson |
| "The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." »Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart |
| "If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." »John Keats |
| "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." »Alexander Pope |
| "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin |
| "Tis the good reader that makes the good book." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs." »Assyrian Proverb |
| "lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough" »William Shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »David Brink |
| "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." »David McClure Brinkley |
| "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »Sidney Greenberg |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "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 |
| "To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd." »Thomas Herrick |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
