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Letter "L" » laurels
«Laurel: I'm incapable of small talk.»
«Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burn?d is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learn?d man.»
Author: Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Apollo, bough, branch, grew, Laurel, laurels, sometime
«Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.»
«Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.»
«Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.»
«LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blacken, blackened, blackens, crowned, Crown Royal, drugging, hair color, hair cut, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, laureate, Laurel, laurels, leave office, officer, Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, royal court, Samson, Southey, sovereign, The Knack
«LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Apollo, brows, dedicated, defoliated, formerly, Laurel, laurels, Laurus, supra, The Victor, The Victors, vegetable, victors, wreathe, wreathed
«Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.»
«Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Popularity
| Keywords:
Bad art, crown, Laurel, laurels, popularity, The Crown
«The strongest poison ever known / Came from Caesar's laurel crown.»
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