Won World Cup

Famous quotes containing the words won, world and/or cup:

    After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward let us range,
    Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of
    change.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    In poorer lands
    No one touches the water of life.
    It has no taste
    And though it refreshes absolutely
    It is a cup that must also pass
    Until everybody
    Gets some advantage....
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)