Silver Laurel Leaf

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

    I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor’s] laurel yield to the [orator’s] tongue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    frog pond ...
    a leaf falls in
    without a sound
    Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)