People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you’ll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn’t keep.

I am the parking garage of love, but sadly I’m empty at the moment. It’s cheaper if you pay for a whole week, rather than by the hour.

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by...

Two become one when two are in love—or when the waitress asks about our dinner bill. I’ll pay next time, I promise.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.

I agree and admit that thinking and planning are free. Nobody charges you for thinking and you pay no one to make plans. It’s your decision!

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Reward is not a previledge, reward is justice for work well done

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.

My love is divided into three parts. I’ll give you part one and two for free, but for the fourth installation, you’ll have to pay for it.

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others’ clothes on.

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant...

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into...

In it’s purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it’s a risk that...

No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

I make love like a sandwich ate at my best friend. It’s only happened to me once, and I very nearly didn’t have to pay for it.

Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker...