Cooper - Professions

Professions

  • Cooper (profession), a maker of barrels and other staved vessels.

Read more about this topic:  Cooper

Famous quotes containing the word professions:

    A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.
    —Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.

    Dutch expression.

    I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. ‘Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)