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)
“The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me,—a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses, and I did not like to feel the horizon shutting me in, even to so pleasant a corner as this.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
“I lay upon my baby;
Ye little childer dear,
I looked on my cold baby
When the morn grew frosty and clear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)