trade quotes

• Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,
  And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,
  While we the living our lives are giving
  To bring the bright new world to birth. (William Morris) [trade/dreams]
• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. (Thomas Carlyle) [strange/trade/intellect/sale]
• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. (William Cobbett) [press/trade/people/budget]
• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [trade/more/men/more]
• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. (John Dryden) [money/trade/pole/pole]
• War is the trade of Kings. (John Dryden) [war/trade]
• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -- (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [trade/art/wealth/trace]
• The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [trade]
• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [trade/willpower/america/]
• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [choice/excuse/trade/business]
• He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. (Benjamin Franklin) [trade/office/profit]
• No nation was ever ruined by trade. (Benjamin Franklin) [nation/trade]
• We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole. (Edward Heath) [trade/trade/trade/nation]
• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it. (Ernest Hemingway) [/trade/paper/take]
• Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. () [life/trade/death]
• The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. (Thomas Jefferson) [trade]
• It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. (Thomas Jefferson) [trade/question]
• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. (Samuel Johnson) [trade/advertising/perfection/art]
• There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [women/trade]
• He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [memory/take/trade]
• For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. (George Orwell) [housing/life/trade/politics]
• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. (John Ruskin) [men/trade]
• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. (George Sand) [trade/authorship]
• What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? (George Bernard Shaw) [virtue/trade]
• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Adam Smith) [people/trade/conversation]
• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. ( Socrates) [trade/government]
• If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him. (Robert Louis Stevenson) [trade/question/fame]
• Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. (Henry David Thoreau) [trade/lord/petty/state]
• Men have become the tools of their trade. (Henry David Thoreau) [men/trade]
• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. (Walt Whitman) [trade/employment]
• This is what it has come to in this day and age-we created the image of Starsky and Hutch, but if we trade on that we are in violation. This is television, it's all about marketing, and it sickens me. (David Soul) [day/trade/television/marketing]

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