“The pay of the volunteer fireman? Praise. Respect. Purpose.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 67
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“We praise loyalty, but it pays the price when it supports those whom Fortune crushes.”
Dat poenas laudata fides, cum sustinet inquit
quos fortuna premit.
Book VIII, line 485 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Men are quick to praise and quick to blame; so pay no heed to what others speak of you.”
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Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), Introduction
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
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Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html
1910s
Context: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)