Professions

Famous quotes containing the word professions:

“A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.”
—Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.

Dutch expression.

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)