Famous quotes containing the word earn:
“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate,
envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content
with my harm.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn less because they do the housework.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)