Lays Quotes · Page 19

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing…

— Adam Weishaupt

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

— Homer

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

— Saadi

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

— Joan Rivers

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

— Andrew Jackson

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

— Neil Gaiman

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

— Laurence Sterne

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

— Alice Hegan Rice

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age:…

— Hilaire Belloc

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and…

— Noah Lukeman

In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with…

— Sun Tzu

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion…

— Josh Billings

Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and…

— Elisabeth Elliot

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary…

— Harry Enfield

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never…

— William Shakespeare

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has…

— Walt Whitman

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles…

— Isak Dinesen

For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just…

— Laird Hamilton

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky…

— James Carlos Blake

It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the…

— David Lilienthal

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

— Sakyong Mipham

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.

— Lydia Sigourney

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

— Mae West

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

— Richard Powers

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

— Edmund Vance Cooke

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

— Bobby Robson

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

— Samuel Johnson

In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.

— Edward Kowalczyk

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

— Elie Wiesel

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

— Rick James