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)

    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)