Trade Plates

Famous quotes containing the words trade and/or plates:

“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)

“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)