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Circles: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.— SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Hydriotaphia. Ch. V.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.— EMERSON — Essays. Circles.

As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 364

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.— SWIFT — On a Circle.

I watch'd the little circles die; They past into the level flood.— TENNYSON — The Miller's Daughter. St. 10.

On the lecture slate The circle rounded under female hands With flawless demonstration.— TENNYSON — The Princess. II. L. 349.

Circles are praised, not that abound In largeness, but the exactly round.— EDMUND WALLER — Long and Short Life.