Famous quotes containing the words stakes and/or won:
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
—Jean Elliot (1727–1805)