Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

    The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Brutus had rather be a villager
    Than to repute himself a son of Rome
    Under these hard conditions as this time
    Is like to lay upon us.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate to lay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)