Famous quotes containing the word ring:
“I like well the ring of your last maxim, It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities. And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The boxers ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The world,this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult. I grasp the hands of those next to me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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