Golden Laurel

Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or laurel:

    Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)