Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or won:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.”
—Anne Smedley (c. 1894–1950)