Laurels Quotes
104 quotes by 92 authors
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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
— Horatio Nelson
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets…
— Richard Hovey
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Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years…
— Will Carleton
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The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying…
— Isabella Beeton
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I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble…
— Earl Doherty
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on…
— Angela Davis
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store…
— Beth Henley
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I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf…
— Junior Seau
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If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
— Patricia Cornwell
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As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere…
— Aprilynne Pike
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others…
— Hugh Nibley
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The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we…
— Steve Ballmer
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I want us to know our world.  If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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