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)
“I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. Ive fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobodys going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless Im crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! Now I hear themding-dong bell.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)