Blame is the lazy man's wages. [ Danish Proverb ]
A good servant must have good wages. [ Proverb ]
Pains are the wages of ill pleasures. [ Proverb ]
Men work but slowly that have poor wages. [ Proverb ]
He that serves well needs not ask his wages. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The wages of a good workman are never too high. [ French Proverb ]
If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself. [ Proverb ]
He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. [ Proverb ]
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. [ Carlyle ]
Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. [ Carlyle ]
Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. [ Quarles ]
One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. [ William Shakespeare ]
Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. [ Froude ]
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. [ Edward Everett ]
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? [ Carlyle ]
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is, to watch the success of our enemy, to be sure of it. [ Colton ]
Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]