Enclosed Base Ring

Famous quotes containing the words enclosed, base and/or ring:

    “When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
    Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
    That beetles o’er his base into the sea,
    And there assume some other horrible form
    Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
    And draw you into madness?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The boxer’s ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)