Won Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words won and/or vacant:

    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)

    Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
    Louis XIV (1638–1715)