Quotes Tagged "wages"

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is just an employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

The wages of pedantry is pain.