Silver Laurel Leaf

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)

    The strongest poison ever known
    Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women:
    I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.
    Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken,
    Look! It is there!
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)