An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean Koontz

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
Euripides

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
George Santayana

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
W. H. Auden

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Rita Mae Brown

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
Richard Pryor

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Carol Burnett

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
Sarah Silverman