Quotes for All
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved – friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers – whoever’s been close to you. As you continue to grow, you’ll find many ways of expressing your … Read more
A man walks into a pet shop and says: \”Give me a wasp.\” The shopkeeper replies: \”We don’t sell wasps.\” He says: \”There’s one in the window.\” Frank Carson
I’m sorry,’ said the shopkeeper. ‘I can’t understand your ridiculous accent.’ ‘My accent?’ ‘It is quite silly.’ ‘So you can’t understand me?’ ‘Not a word.’ ‘Then how did you understand that?’ ‘I didn’t.’ ”You didn’t understand what I just said?’ ‘That’s right.’ ‘You understood that, though.’ ‘Not at all.’ The American glowered. Derek Landy
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. Benjamin Disraeli
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of “shopkeepers”, has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history. Arthur Bryant
If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin’s egg. Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, ‘What is the use?’ For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge … Read more
Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau’s idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead. Richard Armour
Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that … Read more
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Adam … Read more