Quotes of Profession - somelinesforyou

“ Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ”

- William Cowper

“ Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. ”

- Georges Simenon

“ Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art. ”

- Muhammad Hijazi

“ The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. ”

- Bible

“ Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. ”

- Unknown

“ The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual.". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ”

- Ugo Betti

“ God will pardon me. It's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ”

- Tom Fatjo

“ God will forgive me. That's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. ”

- Henry George

“ The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. ”

- Socrates

“ Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ”

- Edward Young

“ Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. ”

- Washington Irving

“ The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books. ”

- David Copperfield

“ I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good. ”

- Peter Cooper

“ And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said, 'Do you earn a living doing that?'. He said, 'Yes, this my livelihood'. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. ”

- John Hurt

“ He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here. ”

- Count Basie
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