Plain Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:

    “The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    “frog pond ...
    a leaf falls in
    without a sound”
    —Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)