Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or won:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)