payment quotes

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.