Pays

Famous quotes containing the word pays:

“A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“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)