Famous quotes containing the words turf, mile and/or stakes:
“Lie lightly on her, turf and dew:
She put so little weight on you.”
—Marcus Valerius Martial (c. 40–104)
“smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond . . .”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)