"It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills."
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"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."
"It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends."
"Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day."
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay."
"You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators."
"America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for."
"Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners."
"Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible."
"There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent."
"Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?""
"Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one."
"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."
"I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son."
"Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay"
"Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."
"If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author."