Professions

Famous quotes containing the word professions:

    As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and ... am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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

    Dutch expression.