Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to
me whispering to congratulate me,
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined
toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I
was happy.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)