Referee Stopped Contest

Famous quotes containing the words stopped and/or contest:

    “And we passed to the end of a vista,
    But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
    By the door of a legended tomb;
    And I said—” What is written, sweet sister,
    On the door of this legended tomb?”
    She replied—”Ulalume—Ulalume!—
    ‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.”
    —Epictetus (c. 55–135)