High Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or stakes:

“The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)