Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I spent some time in Paris when I made 'Black Tights.' The working people were great but I didn't like the attitude… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, Rouen merchants who sold craspoix to the English paid high tariffs at London Bridge, which suggests this salted whale blubber was… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
