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Quotes About Payment

My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
~ Jake Halpern
You mean something happened to him?" Her voice faded off into sort of a sad whisper, like a mortician asking for a down payment.
~ Raymond Chandler
Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile.
~ Raymond Chandler
Trouble is my business," I said. "Twenty-five a day and guarantee of two-fifty, if I pull the job.
~ Raymond Chandler
In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. QUELLCRIST
~ Richard K. Morgan
In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Comme Bancroft, MacIntyre avait été un homme de pouvoir et, comme tous les hommes de pouvoir, quand il parlait de prix, vous pouviez être sûr d'une chose : C'était quelqu'un d'autre qui payait.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Nothing comes without a price.
~ Juliet Marillier
That's why they pay me the medium-sized bucks.
~ Karen Rose
all cases, therefore, the use-value of the labour-power is advanced to the capitalist: the labourer allows the buyer to consume it before he receives payment of the price; he everywhere gives credit to the capitalist. That this credit is no mere fiction, is shown not only by the occasional loss of wages on the bankruptcy of the capitalist,[181] but also by a series of more enduring consequences.
~ Karl Marx
y, en términos generales, advertiréis, frente a un enorme aumento de valor no sólo de las mercancías, sino también en general de las operaciones en dinero, una tendencia a la disminución progresiva de los medios de pago.
~ Karl Marx
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
~ Ivan Panin
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.
~ Shelley Berman
You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
~ Abraham Lincoln
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
~ Conan O'Brien
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
~ Max Beerbohm
Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.
~ Larry the Cable Guy
I don't even get an allowance.
~ Macaulay Culkin
Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
How much do I owe you?
~ Chevy Chase