Famous quotes containing the words laurel, trail and/or council:
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)