Pay Quotes - Page 19

• A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Assurance

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

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• It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Who Your Friends Are, Knows

  Bob Dylan (1970). “Tarantula”

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• We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Sweet, Heaven, Doe

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• Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

  Margaret Deland

  Grief, World

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• We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

  Gracie Allen

  Country, Jobs, Favors

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• The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Wisdom, Men, Fool

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.73

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• Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

  David Hume

  Men, Virtue, He Man

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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• The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Integrity, Mean

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• we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

  Arianna Huffington

  Teacher, School, Bridges

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Men, Benefits, Way

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Realist, Accepting, Refuse

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• [I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

  Harriet Martineau

  Land, Wish, Doe

  Harriet Martineau (1834). “Illustrations of taxation”, p.50

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• God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.

  Anne of Austria

  God, Years, May

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• I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Long, Dresses, Dress Code

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Foetal Attraction”, p.48, Random House

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• All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Writing, People

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• People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  People, Way, Chairs

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• Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Kings, May, Tribute

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, People, Might

  Mayor Bloomberg's Address to The Brookings Center On Children And Families "briefing On The Census Poverty Report", www1.nyc.gov. August 28, 2007.

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• We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

  Olive Schreiner

  War, Gun, Men

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• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

  Joseph Cook

  Charity, Realizing, Investment

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• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, War, Men

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.17, University of Toronto Press

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• One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

  Audre Lorde

  Awareness

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

  Terry McMillan

  Attention, About Yourself, Agitate

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