Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“Guess now who holds thee?Death, I said. But,
there,
The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)