Higher Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or stakes:

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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