“The strongest poison ever known / Came from Caesar's laurel crown.”
William Blake
“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
William Penn
“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._)”
Ambrose Bierce
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
Douglas MacArthur
“You can't just sit back on your laurels. You have to constantly innovate.”
Mark Landy
