Formed

Famous quotes containing the word formed:

“People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Continuing to live that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries
Is nearly always losing, or going without.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their consent.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)