Silver Laurel Leaf

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

    Silver bells, silver bells,
    It’s Christmas time in the city.
    Ray Evans (b. 1915)

    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 leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else’s.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)