Quotes of Garland - somelinesforyou

“ To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. ”

- George Chapman

“ To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. ”

- George Chapman

“ With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. ”

- Julie Krone

“ Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Our haughty life is crowned with darkness,Like London with its own black wreath. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ If you want to see a star, don't go to Hollywood. Come to Palm Springs. ”

- Kirk Douglas

“ If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral. ”

- Gregory Nunn

“ The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. ”

- Carl Rowan

“ If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be. ”

- Cliff Richard

“ You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. ”

- Barack Obama

“ A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. ”

- John Milton

“ 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 o'er each unforgotten head. ”

- Richard Hovey

“ Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. ”

- Tiberius Caesar

“ Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice. ”

- Sarah Vaughan

“ Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love. ”

- Anacreon

“ Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years — except they had little to do with being a child. ”

- Liza Minnelli

“ Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. ”

- Buddha

“ The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance — all strewn with crumpled playbills. ”

- Henry James

“ Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning. ”

- W. B. Yeats
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