Trades Hall Council

Famous quotes containing the words trades, hall and/or council:

    “Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Chipmunks jump, and
    Greensnakes slither.
    Rather burst than
    Not be with her.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)