Mole Quotes
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Does the eagle know what's in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the mole? Can wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl.
william blake— 1789 Thel's Motto. The Book of Thel.
Strong is the lionlike a coal His eye-balllike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide, th'enormous whale Emerges as he goes.
Christopher Smart— 1763 A Song to David, stanza 76.
. . . My best friend [as a young girl] made this mole on my face, because she would get in a fight with me and scratch me -- by the third time the scab came off the [mole] was there . . .
gloria estefan— Hallmark Channel's This Morning with Naomi Judd (January 29, 2006)
'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little pole-hills The faculties throw up like mole hills.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
Vis consili expers mole ruit sua .
horace— Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.Book III, ode iv, line 65.
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole
stevie smith— "The Boat" (Selected Poems (1962))
Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.
— Brute force without judgement collapses under its own weight
— Horace, in Odes
La grand’ anima del Mondo Sta come auriga, e ’n questa cieca mole Infusa, muove le stellate sfere.
— P. 678.
— Translation: The world’s great soul
Doth stand like charioteer, and this blind mass
Pervading, doth control the starry spheres.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 343.
'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little pole-hills The faculties throw up like mole hills.
— Thomas Hood (1799– 1845), Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
'Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce, Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he Has had, till lately, of Phrenology A science that by simple dint of Head-combing he should find a hint of, When scratching o'er those little pole-hills The faculties throw up like mole hills.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Craniology, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 597.
Vis consili expers mole ruit sua .
— Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
— Book III, ode iv, line 65.
Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall; we now are near his cell.
— Caliban, scene i
The Secret Diary of Adrian mole Aged13.
Sue Townsend— 4 1982 Title of book.
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed mole.
walter de la mare— All But Blind
The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame— Opening lines, Ch. 1, "The River Bank"
'I beg your pardon,' said the mole, pulling himself together with an effort. 'You must think me very rude; but all this is so new to me. So this is a River!' ' The River,' corrected the Rat.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 1 (The Reluctant Dragon)
The mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 3, "The Wild Wood"
'Clearer and nearer still,' cried the Rat joyously. 'Now you must surely hear it! Ah at last I see you do!' Breathless and transfixed the mole stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. He saw the tears on his comrade's cheeks, and bowed his head and understood.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)
mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties; so mole, after struggling with his memory for a brief space, shook his head sadly and followed the Rat.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)
'But what do the words mean?' asked the wondering mole. 'That I do not know,' said the Rat simply. 'I passed them on to you as they reached me. Ah! now they return again, and this time full and clear! This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple passionate perfect '
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)
Mantra which contain up to nine Nine words are called Bejj Mantra, ten to twenty words form Mantraand beyond are mole Mantras.
— In p.85 (Secrets of Yantra, Mantra and Tantra)
