Mould – Quotes

I used to collect

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate – you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I’m allergic to mould. Eric Idle

Every man must, in

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. Eric Berne

Goodness and love mould

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face. Emanuel Swedenborg

I refuse to imprison

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. Ella Maillart

The deepest life of

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister’s counsel and the mother’s prayer. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon

So must the writer,

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. Edmund Waller

Look on this cast,

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was – how large of mould. Edmund Clarence Stedman

Give us a man

Give us a man of God’s own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician’s pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man. … Read more

…it\’s just another one

…it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity E. A. Bucchianeri