Pays

Famous quotes containing the word pays:

“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as to lame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

““What are the characteristics of today’s world so that one may recognize it by them?” It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)