Famous quotes containing the word earn:
““Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....”
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)
“You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.”
—Penelope Leach (20th century)