Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lords silver and gold.”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“Hast ou fashioned so airy a mood
To draw up leaf from the root?
Hast ou found a cloud so light
As seemed neither mist nor shade?”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)