Quotes of Wages - somelinesforyou

“ A fair day's wages for a fair day's work. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. ”

- Mae West

“ Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. ”

- Mohammed

“ You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ It is not the employer who pays wages — he only handles the money. It is the product which pays the wages. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows. ”

- Laurence Lee

“ It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Draw your salary before spending it. ”

- Artemus Ward

“ I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing. ”

- Sam Ervin

“ One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. ”

- Harold Wilson

“ The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work. ”

- Henry Ford

“ People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. ”

- Henry George

“ Be content with your wages. ”

- Bible

“ I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages. ”

- Christopher Love

“ Increasing minimum wages, as Kerry wants to do, makes it more difficult for an unskilled, uneducated worker to find a job. ”

- Larry Elder

“ The laborer is worthy of his reward. ”

- Bible

“ Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. ”

- Rebecca West

“ The wages of sin are unreported. ”

- Unknown

“ These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil. ”

- Kara Vichko

“ The wages of sin are death, but the benefits include dental, major medical, two week paid vacation, pension fund, and stock options. Actually, taken as a package, it's a rather attractive deal. ”

- Tim Mefford

“ They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really. ”

- Paula Poundstone

“ There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. ”

- Henry Ford

“ The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ”

- Paula Poundstone

“ For the wages of sin is death. ”

- Bible

“ Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ”

- Edwin H. Stuart
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