Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature. The Maker of this earth but patented a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)