Top 26 Quotes About Tradesmen
#1. Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
Alexis De Tocqueville
#2. It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.
Franz Kafka
#3. Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
Honore De Balzac
#4. Many tradesmen export their best commodities
the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour; but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
George Bernard Shaw
#6. Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become.
Lionel Shriver
#7. She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.
Boris Pasternak
#8. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.
Jennifer Paynter
#9. The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride ...
Pete Munro
#10. My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#11. Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past.
Susanna Clarke
#13. Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#14. Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
Anne Bishop
#16. A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.
Malcolm X
#17. For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#18. The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.
Nido R. Qubein
#19. To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself.
Marie Helvin
#20. Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.
Phyllis Diller
#21. When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
Graham Moore
#22. Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.
Andy Stanley
#23. I could sit in a pub and tell you all the things that are written in this book but you wouldn't fucking listen.
Banksy
#25. You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
Khalil Gibran
