(320 quotes found)
“If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.”
Dorothy Parker
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
Thomas Kempis
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“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.”
George Washington
“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers/ And laid entwined together in a bed of clover/ Left there to sleep/ Left there to dream of happiness.”
Conor Oberst
“Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's;And every hand that dealt the blow,Ah me! it was his brother's!”
Thomas Campbell
“If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”
Edmund Wilson
“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”
