Lays Quotes - Page 38

• The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'

  Jerry Lewis

  Giving, Guy, Personality

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• It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
  The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
  There is no rustling in the lofty elm
  That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
  Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
  And interrupted murmur of the bee,
  Settling on the sick flowers,
  And then again Instantly on the wing.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Summer Wind”

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• We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Kissing, Night

  Pablo Neruda, “Drunk As Drunk”

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• Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

  Andrew Jackson

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

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• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Taken, Acceptance, Giving

  "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

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• If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Errors, Law, Bridges

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• We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.

  E. H. Moore

  Math, Science, Analogies

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• I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

  Raoul Dufy

  Law, Conformity, Hours

  Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

  Willie Morris

  Friendship, Family, Dog

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• The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

  A. V. Dicey

  Sight, Evil, Liberty

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• We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Science, Quality

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226

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• For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.

  Hans Cloos

  Sleep, Science, Men

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 1785), January 5, 2012.

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• We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

  Robert K. Merton

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press

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• Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

  Ambrose

  Prayer, Men, Names

  St. Ambrose “The Sacred Writings of St. Ambrose”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Eye, Winter, Science

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• ...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17)

  Pope John XXII

  Brother, Heart, Catholic

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• The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

  Joseph Butler

  Philosophical, Thinking, People

  Joseph Butler (1816). “The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.6

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• Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Two Of Me, Done

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• Lead me to the cross
  Where Your love poured out
  Bring me to my knees
  Lord I lay me down
  Rid me of myself
  I belong to You
  Lead me, lead me to the cross.

  Brooke Fraser

  Easter, Knees, Lord

  Song: Lead Me to the Cross

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• So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
  Till my trophies at last I lay down;
  I will cling to the old rugged cross,
  And exchange it some day for a crown.

  George Bennard

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)

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• One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, People, Church

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Examination

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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