Famous quotes containing the word laurel:
“The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
—Francis Miles Finch (18271907)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
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