Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or trades:
“However low and poor the taking Snuff argues a Man to be in his own Stock of Thought, or Means to employ his Brains and his Fingers, yet there is a poorer Creature in the World than He, and this is a Borrower of Snuff; a Fellow that keeps no Box of his own, but is always asking others for a Pinch.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)