Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or won:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“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)