“Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“It is America's opportunity to lay the foundations for a new flowering of English verse, and to lay them as broad as they are strong.”
Preface to Irradiations; Sand and Spray, 1915
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“Lay a second foundation enough inside the first”
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V, Sec. 7
Context: Lay a second foundation enough inside the first... Having laid these two foundations... build cross walls between them uniting the outer and inner foundation in a comb like arrangement set like teeth of a saw. With this form of construction the burden of earth will be distributed into small bodies and will not lie with all its weight in one crushing mass so as to thrust out substructures.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Christmas 1793 speech http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n22/hugh-roberts/who-said-gaddafi-had-to-go
William Whipple (1730–1785) American signatory of the Declaration of Independence
As quoted in "This Was a Man" http://www.whipple.org/william/thiswasaman.html, by Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley (1920–2003) American journalist
“The Bards also, who by the praises of their verse transmit to distant ages the fame of heroes slain in battle, poured forth at ease their lays in abundance.”
Vos quoque qui fortes animas, belloque peremptas
Laudibus in longum vates dimittitis aevum,
Plurima securi fudistis carmina, Bardi.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 447 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Anticipation (2008)
“Lay, lady, lay. Lay across my big, brass bed.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay