To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

In 1838, Connecticut paid $14.50 a month to male teachers and $5.75 a month to women.

The maximum weekly rate paid for women in domestic service in New England around the time of the Revolution was the same as the maximum daily rate for male farm laborers.

Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.

They paid more to tap my phone than they paid me to run the Los Alamos Project.

Let’s say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you’re in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you’ll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors

Either way, no one has paid me back. Ever. No one was even nicer to me after spending my money.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.

You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.

You in the club just to party. I’m there, I get paid a fee.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It’s a great outlet. As for myself, I’m not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.