Turf Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words turf and/or stakes:

“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

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