Quotes about Payment
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
— Anonymous
I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.
— Elton John
Third, show them work often. This is the best way to chip away at a client's natural situational anxiety. Look, they're paying you big bucks for your work, and it's totally natural for them to begin feeling anxious the moment they send you the deposit. So show them what they're paying for.
— Jason Fried
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
— Henry David Thoreau
Love is a paradox. It often involves making a clear decision, but at its heart, it is not a matter of mind or willpower but a flow of energy willingly allowed and exchanged, without requiring payment in return.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In the Franciscan school, God did not need to be paid in order to love and forgive God's own creation for its failures. Love cannot be bought by some "necessary sacrifice"; if it could, it would not and could not work its transformative effects.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
— Conan O'Brien
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
— Virginia Woolf
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
— George Bernard Shaw
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
— Mark Twain