(477 quotes found)
“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of”
George Wallace
“A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away”
Caroline Norton
“And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.”
Richard Lovelace
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
William Howard Taft
“The reason the Yankees never lay an egg is because they don't operate on chicken feed.”
Dan Parker
“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury”
Alexander Smith
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
Raymond Chandler
“The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete”
Richard Wilbur
“The lay reaction is well summed up by the remark of an army officer. We had met socially and were getting along very well until he asked me how I made my living. When I told him I was an anthropologist he drew away and said, "Well, you don't have to be crazy to be an anthropologist, but I guess it helps."”
Clyde Kluckhohn
