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)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone elses.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)