Open Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or stakes:

“To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, to be sure; many a “wise man” has been eaten up in doing so.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)