Plain Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:

    Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
    But that his simple truth must be abused
    With silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)