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Cicero
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
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Cicero
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.
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Douglas Jerrold
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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Jeremy Taylor
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.
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Proverb
Be not a jack of all trades, but a master of one.
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Samuel Johnson
And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
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Shaw
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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