trades quotes

It is the best of trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  On Everything.

For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxuryand licentiousness.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of Labourers' Unions.

-John Ruskin
  Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.