Adversity Quote by John Moody

“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through…

— Shannon L. Alder

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and…

— John Moody

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