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Letter "L" » lay
«Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.»
Author: Barbara Jordan
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Keywords:
afternoon,
afternoons,
blanketed,
blankets,
cookie,
cookies,
lay,
lay down,
milk,
milked,
milking,
nap,
napping,
Naps
«There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.»
«Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?»
Author: Steven Wright
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Comedian)
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Keywords:
babies,
Baby and I,
bizarre,
came,
coincidence,
coincidences,
deathbed,
deathbeds,
eighties,
eighty,
families,
hospital,
later,
lay,
lay away,
lay in,
looked,
One Family,
one of them,
The Hospital,
took,
to each other
«To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first»
«We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.»
«The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Kindness
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Keywords:
communicated,
lay,
lay in,
lips,
longest,
remembered,
so far,
speaker,
Speaker of,
unsaid,
unsay
«We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
backs,
discuss,
discusses,
get laid,
had,
happened,
Laid Back,
lay,
laying on,
look,
look up,
made,
made use of,
On Our Backs,
sky,
speckled,
stars,
used,
used to
«There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.»
«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.»
Author: Sun Tzu
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Author,
General)
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Keywords:
ascertainable,
disposes,
dispose of,
disposing,
lay,
penetrated,
penetrating,
plans,
pried,
pry,
prying,
shape,
spied,
spies,
spying,
The Ultimate,
troops
«The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.»