Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“They unhook their heavy swords
From golden and silver boughs;
But all that are killed in battle
Awaken to life again.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victors] laurel yield to the [orators] tongue.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesnt have the patience and wants the leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)