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)