Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:
“In the last scene, between death and ourselves, there is no more pretending: we must speak plain French.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)