Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
““Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
That blessed wight:
The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
In princely plight.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)