Famous quotes containing the words laid and/or threads:
“The best laid schemes o mice and men Gang aft agley;
An leae us nought but grief an pain, For promisd joy!”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)