Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or won:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
List to the yarn, as my grandmother’s father the sailor told it to
me.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)