Famous quotes containing the word laid:
“Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,
Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze
That whirls the ‘wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)