A Quote by Ronald Reagan

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan
American - President
February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

Bill Press

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

Danny Harris

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

Fareed Zakaria

Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

Elizabeth Bowen

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Christopher Plummer

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Criss Angel

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Clarence Darrow

There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.

Steve Albini

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Brennan Manning

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

Angela Carter

He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will be a hero in war, love, or business.