100+ Merchants Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

Merchants have no country.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.334

topic: Country, Merchants

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The merchant has no country .

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Country, Southern, Merchants

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.429

topic: Ministers, Merchants

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.344

topic: Crafts, Merchants

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

- Robert Burns

source: Robert Burns (1823). “The Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns: Including Ten Never Before Published”, p.125

topic: Gold, Farmers, Merchants

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

- Brent Scowcroft

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Known, Merchants

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

- Larry Holmes

source: Source: www.paneech.com

topic: Phony, Larry, Merchants

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Mind, Villain, Term, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

- John Woolman

source: John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

topic: Heart, Expression, Names, Quaker, Merchants

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Blind, Love Is, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Family, Wise, Meaningful, Inspirational Father, Merchant Of Venice

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

topic: Mercy Of God, Venice, Justice, Justice And Mercy, Merchant Of Venice

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Witty, Atheist, Memorable, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 77

topic: Philosophical, Venice, World, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

- William Shakespeare

topic: Summer, Christian, Hurt, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

All that glisters is not gold.

- Common

topic: Gold, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous, Merchants, Misquoting

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]

topic: Venice, Shylock, Instruction, Go Hard, Merchant Of Venice

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

- Martin Lewis Perl

topic: Mother, Father, School, Merchants, Bookkeepers

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

topic: Prayer, Venice, Mercy Of God, Justice And Mercy, Merchant Of Venice

Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

- William Shakespeare

topic: Rain, Men, Giving, Justice And Mercy, Merchant Of Venice

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Prayer, Mercy Of God, Venice, Justice And Mercy, Merchant Of Venice

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

topic: Passion, Eye, Hands, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

- William Shakespeare

topic: Revenge, Laughing, Poison, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Music, Sweet, Men, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Gold, Old Love, Merchant Of Venice, Merchant Of Venice Famous

All that glitters is not gold.

- William Shakespeare

source: David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

topic: Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter, Judging A Book By Its Cover, Merchant Of Venice

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press

topic: Memorable, Men, Littles, Merchant Of Venice, Merchants

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

- William Shakespeare

topic: Mean, Poverty, Merchant Of Venice, Merchants

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

topic: Patience, Venice, Shylock, Merchant Of Venice, Merchants

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love Is, Gold, Balance, Merchants, Opal

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Ideas, Competition, Wells, Merchants, Tough Competition

We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Thinking, Thoughtful, Desirable, Merchants

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.504, Best Books on

topic: Real, Presidential, Unions, Merchants, Labor Union

In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.

- Jack Weatherford

topic: Religious, Determination, Army, Merchants, Trade Zone

I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Children, Growing Up, Independent, Merchants, Homestead Act

A traveller must have the back of an ***** to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

- Thomas Nashe

topic: Dog, Travel, Tails, Merchants

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

- Edward Dahlberg

topic: Heart, Self, Energy, Cafeteria, Merchants

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.

- John B. Watson

topic: Artist, Doctors, Race, Merchants, Nature Vs Nurture

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

- L. Neil Smith

source: "Merchants of Fear" by L. Neil Smith presented to the Boulder County Libertarian Party, February 20, 1994.

topic: Talking, People, Novelists, Merchants, Soapbox

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

topic: Love, Cat, Men, Merchants, Shylock

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.

- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

topic: Christian, Religious, Blood, Cattle, Merchants

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Honesty, Business, Financial, Merchants

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.153

topic: People, Might, Vote, Merchants

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

- Kevin Plank

topic: Trying, Merchants

Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

topic: Nature, White, Rags, Merchants

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

- Alexander Kotov

topic: Time, Groups, Three, Merchants

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

- Ezra Stiles

topic: Virginia, West, South Carolina, Merchants, Carolina

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

- Howard Zinn

source: Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

topic: Country, Military, Reading, Political Leaders, Merchants

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.