Mills quotes
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value."
"I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person."
"The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn."
"I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill."
"God's mill grinds slow, but sure."
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"I never wanted to be run of the mill."
"The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so."
"The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India."
"You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes."
"The Mill gets by going."
"It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel."
"You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional."
