Smith/occupations

Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or occupations:

“I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.”
—Alexander Smith (1830–1867)

“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)