earn quotes

I earn it by enjoying such authorityand prestige that people will not buy expensive Italian pictures without myapproval.

- Bernard Berenson
Comment on his income, addressed to the Internal Revenue Service. Quoted in The Making of a Legend (1987).

It's full time work being on social security. They really make you earn your living.

- Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
  The Heart of the Country,'Driven Mad'.