Silver Laurel Leaf

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

    Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
    But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,
    Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

    The strongest poison ever known
    Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)