pay quotes

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

-Wilson
  Interview in Playboy.

Not a penny off the pay; not a second on the day.

- ArthurJames Cook
  Miners'strike slogan, coined in a speech, 3  Apr. It is often rendered 'not a minute on the day'.

Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

- Sir Noe«  l Peirce Coward
  Speech, Gallery First-Nighters' Club, sharing his advice to young actors. On other occasions he repeated it in the form'Just say your lines and don't trip over the furniture'.

Non si paga, non si paga. We won't pay, we won't pay.

- Dario Fo
  Play title, translated into English in1981as Can't pay?  Won't pay!

Tell you what, you keep the salary and pay me the cut.

-Vernon Louis known as  'Lefty' Gomez
When asked to take a cut in salary from $20,000 to $7,500 following a poor season. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what's to pay.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Last Poems, no.21.

Pension. Pay given to state hireling for treason to his country.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

- Charles Kemble
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined bya hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall payany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  Inaugural address, Washington, 20  Jan.

   For the sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Tomlinson'.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

- Alain Rene Le Sage
  Crispin rival de son ma|"  tre, pt.9.

In an English ship, they say, it is poor grub, poor pay, and easy work; in an American ship, good grub, good pay, and hard work. And this is applicable to the working populations of both countries.

-Vince(ntThomas) Lombardi
  The People of the Abyss, ch.20.

There is nothing nameable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

- Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

Some women won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot.

- Helena Rubenstein
  In Time, 9 Apr.

Which of us†is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

-John Ruskin
  Sesame and Lilies,'Of Kings' Treasures'.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing, and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

-J(ulian)
1066 and AllThat.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

People do what you pay them to do, not what you ask them to do.

- Hicks Waldron
  In theWall StreetJournal,17 Apr.

Iguessthere's alwaysgoing to be jobsthat pay morethan others, and I suppose I have one of those.

-Venus Williams
  In the Observer, 9 Jun.