Occupations
- Captain (nautical), person or officer usually in command of a ship or similar vessel
- Captain (airlines), senior person or officer usually in charge of an aircraft
- Fire captain, officer in a fire department
- Police captain, officer in a police organization
- Caporegime ("Capo"), high-ranking member ("captain") in charge of a Mafia crew
- Captain of industry, business leader
- Captain of the Port, harbour (UK) or coastguard (USA) post
- Captain-major, colonial officer of a Portuguese possession
- Precinct captain, political party's representative at an election precinct
- School Captain, student elected or appointed to represent the school
- The title of a chieftain in traditional Cretan society, as used by Nikos Kazantzakis in his novel Captain Michalis
- The chieftain (Captein) of the Oorlam people in 19th-century South Africa
- In Ottoman-ruled Bosnia and Herzegovina, the equivalent of a city mayor and/or sheriff (see Bosnian uprising)
- Castellan, captain of a medieval castle
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“Woman was originally the inventor, the manufacturer, the provider. She has allowed one office after another gradually to slip from her hand, until she retains, with loose grasp, only the so-called housekeeping.... Having thus given up one by one the occupations which required knowledge of materials and processes, and skill in using them ... she rightly feels that what’s left is mere deadening drudgery.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for which even the conduct of providence might have been arraigned, had he been by birth annexed to what was so far below him.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)