Merchants Quotes - Page 10

• Merchants have no country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country

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

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• The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, War, Grief

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• Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, People, Giving

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Egypt

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• I beseech you,
  Wrest once the law to your authority:
  To do a great right, do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Justice, Littles

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [215]

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• There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

  Anatole France

  Cheating, Thinking, People

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• 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: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Rain, Heart

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

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Heart, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

  Douglas Adams

  Successful, Boredom, Dull

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.

  Walter Pater

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• ...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

  David Eddings

  Sorry, Elderly, Expression

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• I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted her eyes innocently."But the street merchant gave us a very good deal on those.Walt said they would fit you." Walt raised his hand."Don't blame me,man.I tried to stick up for you." Bes snorted,then did a pretty good imitation of Walt's voice:"At least get the extra-large ones with Pikachu.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

  George R. R. Martin

  Knights, Land, Two

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.381, Bantam

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• I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

  John Quincy Adams

  Warrior, Son, May

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• The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kissing, Moon

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

  William Shakespeare

  Respect, World, Care

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 74

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• Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Uplifting, Strong, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.51, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Strong, Attachment

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Fairness, Unfair, Employers

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Military, School, Marine

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• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

  Damian Lewis

  Independent, Class, Ideas

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• Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

  James MacArthur

  Sadness, Walt

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• What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

  James Madison

  Hazards, Branches, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.288

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