Tradesman Quotes

#1. When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

George Eliot

#2. There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#3. On Saturday mornings Mr Ewing would make his rounds, giving each tradesman £1 and the apprentices, ten shillings. Needless to say, we were all peeping around corners awaiting his arrival!

Ian Thompson

#4. Of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days

Charles Dickens

#5. Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#6. Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

Shane Filan

#7. What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

Jean-Baptiste Say

#8. In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

Honore De Balzac

#9. Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX.

Charles Dickens

#10. No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

Charles Dickens

#11. I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

Grant Bowler

#12. Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

Courtney Milan

#13. Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman

Charles Dickens

#14. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Martin Luther

#15. But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!

Hope Mirrlees

#16. In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character ...

Adam Smith

#17. My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

Thomas Steinbeck

#18. Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

Tobias Smollett

#19. What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own own advantage the labour of servant, tradesman, and artist; in wider sense, authority of directing large masses of the nation to various ends.

John Ruskin

#20. Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

George Gissing

#21. Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI.

Charles Dickens

#22. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine

Charles Dickens

#23. To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Christina Ricci

#25. Study everything that makes God wonderful and mimic to your heart's delight, as the joyful expression of your reciprocal love for him.

Jen Wilkin

#26. We all have regrets. Anyone who says they have none is a liar, and anyone who thinks they'll live without acquiring some is a fool.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#27. Yellen's comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.

Carl Icahn

#28. If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

Deepak Chopra

#29. Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Alice Munro

#30. There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

Mother Teresa

#31. Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Warren Cuccurullo

#32. I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Larry David

#33. I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.

Tom Waits

#34. For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

Christian Lacroix