Monday, June 28, 2010

Standing Firmly in Mid-Air on Both Sides of an Issue

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Professionals built the Titanic – amateurs the Ark. – anonymous




In time a profession is like marriage, we cease to note anything but its inconveniences. – Honore de Balzac



The artistic temperament is a disease that afflict amateurs. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it. – Alastair Cooke



The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin



An egghead is one who stands firmly on both feet in mid-air on both sides of an issue. – Senator Homer Ferguson



Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor every thirst to the pot. – English proverb

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