Real Wages

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or wages:

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“If the wages of sin are death, what else, I should like to know, is the wages of virtue?”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)