Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“While this magnetic,
Peripatetic
Lover he lived to learn,
By no endeavor
Can a magnet ever
Attract a Silver Churn!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)