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.)
“Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)