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"Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off."
"Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film."
"Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply."
"Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret."
"You don’t pay back, you pay forward."
"It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that."
"Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts."
"Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness."
"Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills."
"Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude."
"The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries."
"Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work."
"I'm not going to pay good money to join a club that lets in people like me."
"We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes."
"There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'"
"Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours."
"Learn how to cook! That's the way to save money. You don't save it buying hamburger helpers, and prepared foods; you save it by buying fresh foods in season or in large supply, when they are cheapest and usually best, and you prepare them from scratch at home. Why pay for someone else's work, when if you know how to do it, you can save all that money for yourself?"
"God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either."
"I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept."
"Let's say you have a pile that is not sorted. Bring it in front of you, put a sticky note on it that says 'pay bill' and the date when it is due. Then you can sort them by due date."
