Professions

Professions

 

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1. Archeologists and historians … they are like jewelers, examining every tiny aspect of each valuable thing, with exactness and care —Judith Martin
2. Business is a vocation. Philosophy is, or should be, an avocation —Elbert Hubbard
3. A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination —Arthur W. Pinero
4. (I guess) getting into nunhood is about as hard as pro football —Michael Malone
5. (In ordinary business, man can settle to routine. The journalist can’t.) He’s [the journalist] like a robin, looking in all directions at once —Frank Swinnerton
6. He who philosophizes is like a mirror that reflects objects that it cannot see, like a cave that returns the echo of voices that it does not hear —Kahlil Gibran
7. Journalism, like history, is certainy not an exact science —John Gunther
8. The Notary Public, like the domestic dog, is found everywhere —John Cadman Roper
9. The philosopher is like a mountaineer who has with difficulty climbed a mountain for the sake of the surprise, and arriving at the top finds only fog; whereupon he wanders down again —W. Somerset Maugham
10. Philosophy is like the ocean: there are pearls in its depths, but many divers find nothing for all their exertion and perish in the attempt —Ha Yevani Zerahia
11. Police business … it’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men —Raymond Chandler
12. Professors are just like actors. Actors got press agents that write things about them and they get so they believe it —Anon
13. Professors get to looking at their diplomas and get to believing what it says there —Will Rogers, radio broadcast, January 27, 1935
14. Psychoanalysis, like imagination, cannot be learned by rote —Theodor Reik
15. Psychology is like physics before Galileo’s time, not a single elementary law yet caught a glimpse of —William James, letter to James Sully, 1890
16. Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat —Oscar Ameringer, Progressive, January 17, 1942

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17. Working journalists regularly chase wild geese. Like firemen, they answer alarms, many of them false —Richard Rovere

Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.