Won Vacant

Famous quotes containing the words won and/or vacant:

    “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)

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