Paid

Famous quotes containing the word paid:

“According to the historian, they escaped as by a miracle all roving bands of Indians, and reached their homes in safety, with their trophies, for which the General Court paid them fifty pounds. The family of Hannah Dustan all assembled alive once more, except the infant whose brains were dashed out against the apple tree, and there have been many who in later time have lived to say that they have eaten of the fruit of that apple tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Who are you, and what do you get out of this? Just a guy who’s paid to do other people’s laundry.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“Pleasure that isn’t paid for is as insipid as everything else that’s free.”
—Anita Loos (1893–1981)