Stakes Rules

Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or rules:

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

“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)