Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman’s shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God’s allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad criticsf

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by timing to Himself our littleness

That’s just great. She gets dinner and Dixieland and laid. And I get mosquitoes and no beer and… not laid. How could this get any… [alligator surfaces and growls] LET ME FINISH… worse. You ruined it. You ruined the moment.”

The bricks of consistency and repetition are laid on the route to the glory of hoisting a trophy over your head.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.

I may like, fornicate more than other people, it’s just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid, you know what I mean? I’ve been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blow job?