Win Hill Pike

Famous quotes containing the words win, hill and/or pike:

    I suspect victims; they win in the long run.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.”
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
    armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
    Petrarch (1304–1374)