Laurels Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson
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
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
There are no laurels in life, just new challenges. — Katharine Hepburn
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
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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
I refuse to sit on my laurels. — Patricia Cornwell
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
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
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
I want us to know our world.Â Â If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy… — Lady Bird Johnson

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