For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs…

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He…

— Rawi Hage

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of…

— Tim Roth

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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…

— Edward Dahlberg

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Merchants and craftsmen make prosperity; chiefs, priests and thieves fritter it away.”

— Matt Ridley

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants…

— Bob Frank

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

— Clint Walker

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane…

— John Ruskin

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses…

— Henry Morton Stanley

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

— Thomas Campion

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

— Larry Holmes

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

— George Horace Lorimer

All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare