«Gold that buys health can never be ill spent; nor hours laid out in harmless merriment»

«Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.»

«From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.»

«?But that?s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn?t. And if they had, we shouldn?t know, because they?d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end?»

«As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid»

«All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.»

«Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18»

«Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid»

«Come away, come away, death,And in sad cypress let me be laid.»

«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»