| "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 |
| "The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." »John W. Gardner |
| "I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours." »Grace Murray Hopper |
| "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." »Alexander Pope |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »Sidney Greenberg |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." »David McClure Brinkley |
| "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "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 |
| "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." »David Brink |
| "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 |
| "The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide." »Ben Bova |
| "Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools." »John Billings |
| "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 |
| "The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
| "to get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd." »Thomas Herrick |
| "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 |
| "He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
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