Savage Won

Famous quotes containing the words savage and/or won:

“There was nothing but that savage ocean between us and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
Thy life never continueth in one stay.
Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to gray
That hath won neither laurel nor bay?”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)