Profession Quotes

There is an art to “catching a husband”: “keeping” him is a profession.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Whoever saw one physician use another’s prescription, without taking something away or adding something to it?[Qui a jamais vu un médecin confirmer tout simplement l’ordonnance d’un confrère, sans y rien ajouter ou retrancher?]

When something is a vocation, you don’t really make a decision about it.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The great merit of being a doctor is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

If one is competent in one thing and understands one thing well, one gains at the same time insight into and knowledge of many other things into the bargain.[Als men in één ding bekwaam is en ééne zaak goed begrijpt dan heeft men inzigt en kennis van vele anderen tegelijk, op den koop toe.]

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

I like the idea of doing really old professions… and acting is one of the oldest. There is something special about being in a theatre… and being on stage with a group of players.