Famous quotes containing the word paid:
“It’s not that I don’t have opinions, rather that I’m paid not to think aloud.”
—Yitzhak Navon (b. 1921)
“Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behaviour perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)