Laurel Wreaths Quotes & Sayings

If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow yourselves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bearing things patiently, for doing things with courage.. — Aldous Huxley

Live at the verge of insanity, be wild.
Life is too precious to be so tame and mild. — Debasish Mridha

The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd. — John Stuart Mill

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?' — M.H. Abrams

My change of heart isn't about flaking out; it's about fighting back. — Jasmine Warga

Time often removes the laurel wreaths and places them on the heads of the real winners. But then usually both are dead. — Dejan Stojanovic

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. — Sun Tzu

You can't be somebody that you're not, because all of you shows up. — John Boehner

Man constantly prayed to God for peace, but peace never happened, so he decided that his god must really want war because the other side was sinful. Man invented and extolled virtues which could only be exemplified under conditions of war, like heroism and gallantry and honor, and he gave himself laurel wreaths or booty or medals for such things, thus rewarding himself for behaving well while sinning. He did it when he was a primitive, and he went on with it after he thought he was civilized. — Sheri S. Tepper

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. — Albert Einstein

One Without the other is nothing — Ray Bradbury

I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career. — Tsai Ing-wen

People marvel that we're not out in the streets, decking the monstrous, khaki tanks with roses and jasmine. They wonder why we don't crown the hard, ugly helmets of the troops with wreaths of laurel. They question why we mourn our dead instead of gratefully offering them as sacrifices to the Gods of Democracy and Liberty. They wonder why we're bitter. — Riverbend

Most often, adorned winners haven't worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don't care about adorned victories. — Dejan Stojanovic

You only live when you truly get lost in love. — Debasish Mridha