Higher Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or stakes:

“The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

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