Top 12 Wreaths Quotes - Quoted Daily

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

Hortense Calisher

Memories, Wreaths, Emphasis

Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media

He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

Tove Jansson

Beautiful, Tree, Wreaths

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

John Milton

Nymphs, Wreaths, Dimples

'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 25

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

Matthew Arnold

Eye, Age, Wreaths

Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.143

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

John Wesley

Crowns, Wreaths, Poor

John Wesley (1797). “A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition”, p.4

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

Walt Whitman

Memories, Wreaths, Unions

Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books