Famous quotes containing the words plot, sees and/or laurel:
“The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickens ... with the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Cynic. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor’s] laurel yield to the [orator’s] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)