Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“Walked forth to ease my pain
Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)