Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Charles Curtis

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
Piers Anthony

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.
Buck Owens

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
Aaron Yoo

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
Cameron Diaz

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
Edward Bennett Williams

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
Benny Green

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
Gabriel Byrne

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Andrew Eldritch

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville

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

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov

It pays to get drunk with the best people.
Joe E. Lewis

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher