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Quotation with: "wage"
"To realize the value of ONE YEAR
Ask a student who has failed his final exam.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY
Ask a daily wage labourer who has ten kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet or . . .
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE
Ask a person who has missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have!
And treasure it more because you
Share it with someone special . . . special enough to have your time. . ."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.
We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers
and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy."
Author: Wendell Berry
About: Freedom
"The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
Author: Gerald R. Ford
About: Government
"It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage."
Author: Learned Hand
About: Inspirational
"A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't."
Author: Al Bauman
About: Inspirational
"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss."
Author: Robert Burns
About: Literature
"No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,
Necessity's sharp pinch."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Necessity
"Night comes, world-jewelled, . . .
The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage
War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,
Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth
After the sun's red sea-death–quietless."
Author: Philip James Bailey
About: Night
"The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies."
Author: Basil O'Connor
About: Peace
"To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason."
Author: H.L. Mencken
About: Politics Government
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