Lays Quotes · Page 16

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

— Confucius

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

— Johnny Cash

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

— Cyril Smith

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

— Oswald Chambers

I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own…

— Ralph Hodgson

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.

— Ehud Barak

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are…

— William James

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But…

— Samuel Beckett

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no…

— Dan Harmon

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle

On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser,…

— Thomas Campbell

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I…

— Bob Buford

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some…

— Barbara Holland

I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old…

— John Crowe Ransom

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not…

— John Locke

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up…

— Gregory Heisler

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part…

— Samuel Johnson

There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest…

— Edmund Spenser

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat…

— Lenny Bruce

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There…

— Charles Spurgeon

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else…

— Stuart Scott

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

— Margaret Thatcher

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

— Anonymous

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to…

— Madonna Ciccone

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

— Michael Haneke

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

— Homer

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

— Robert Genn

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

— Alexander Smith

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

— Nas

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives,

— Philip Larkin

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

— Richard J. Foster

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

— George Pataki

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

— Warren G. Bennis

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and…

— John Dryden