Stock Quotes

 

Graft on a good stock to get the best results.

--Proverb

 

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie --
That Commerce will continue --
And Trades as briskly fly.

--Emily Dickinson

 

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

--Mark Twain

 

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

--Mark Twain

 

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

--Marcius Porcius Cato

 

... conferred by the House last week to safeguard the position in regard to stocks of commodities of various kinds. The thoughts of many of us must at this ...

--Neville Chamberlain

 

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom; And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

--Samuel Smiles

 

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

--Sarah Bernhardt

 

A pair of stocks, you rogue!

--William Shakespeare

 

Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.

--James Russell Lowell

 

I'll turn my mercy out o' doors, and make a stock-fish of thee.

--William Shakespeare in The Tempest

 

... Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd, No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd, Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle; Pale as his shirt, his ...

--William Shakespeare

 

Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?

--William Wordsworth

 

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
On the late Massacre in Piedmont.

--John Milton