Slip Rings

Famous quotes containing the words slip and/or rings:

“I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“You held my hand
and were instant to explain
the three rings of danger.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)