Laid

Famous quotes containing the word laid:

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 4)

“The man nearest my soul,
Who like a brother toiled in my affairs,
And laid his love and life under my foot.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft agley;
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)