Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)