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Leafs Quotes

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Keith Waterhouse (2012). “Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays”, p.66, Oberon Books

Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

Speech, quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet", October 1981.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.117

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Arnold Bennett (2016). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

We all do fade as a leaf.

Isaiah. LXIV. 6,

Turn over a new leaf.

James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.422

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber