Women are coquettes by profession. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The profession of woman is very hard. [ Mme. d'Epinay ]
The best profession of religion is a good life. [ E. W ]
I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. [ Thackeray ]
To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. [ Goldsmith ]
The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]
Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it. [ Rousseau ]
As to lawyers, - their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong. [ Junius ]
It ill corresponds with a profession of friendship to refuse assistance to a friend in time of need. [ G. Crabb ]
To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice. [ Aristotle ]
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. [ Hazlitt ]
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]
If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. [ Johnson ]
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of his profession. [ Colton ]
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. [ Magendie ]
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case. [ Colton ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]