Silver Laurel Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:

    While this magnetic,
    Peripatetic
    Lover he lived to learn,
    By no endeavor
    Can a magnet ever
    Attract a Silver Churn!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)