Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“By right or wrong,
Lands and goods go to the strong.
Property will brutely draw
Still to the proprietor;
Silver to silver creep and wind,
And kind to kind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor’s] laurel yield to the [orator’s] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)