Famous quotes containing the words edge and/or won:
“The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.”
—Ecclesiasticus Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 28:17-8.
“Great things are won by great dangers.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)