Won Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words won and/or vacant:

    A man who knows the Real
    is won only by true feeling.
    Who can fool an old cat
    with sour gruel?
    Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)