“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.” MenRunningAgeTodayBoysGroupsMiddleMastersCivilizationIntellectualFellowsTradeMedicinePatternsLawyerTricksFancyPriestsJealousFellow ManCompetenceMiddle AgesPseudoGuardingAutocracyHocus PocusPseudo Intellectuals Author:Fred Rodell
“Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.” PeopleIfsLooksRunningGirlHouseBoysDoctorsTradeDancingDanceDancerInvitedDespisedSpoonsChoreographyHummingbirds Author:Agnes de Mille
“Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.” YearsMadeEducationBoysFateStreetsYears AgoTradeFairyRomeTwelveTrafficDelightfulMockFilthy Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed
“I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!” WorldLifeFirstsLastsGirlNamesBoysDaughterTradeMy Daughter Author:Rick Ross
“The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.” HumansLooksIdeasSelfHandsGirlWorkBoysTaughtActivityMouthsTradeWorkersProfessionImpressedDependenceHuman ActivityDronesHives Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“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.” EndsAgeOrderBoysCasesMiddleTradeSoldierEnteringMiddle AgesMerchantsInitiationWorkmenAdministratorsCourtiersPlies Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.” WorldHeartHomeSchoolMotherLossBoysInfluenceSonKissingEconomicsTradeLipsDisappointmentLimitationManhoodControversyBewilderedMother And Son Author:Judith Ellen Foster
“Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.” KnowsProblemBoysMathematicsTradeWestStagnationWhipping Author:Brent Scowcroft
“I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.” WantI CanChanceBoysBeatsSkinsTradeEmsCheatMy Boys Author:John D. Rockefeller