Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
As they came floating on the Christal Flood,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“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)