Wages

Famous quotes containing the word wages:

    These, in the day when heaven was falling,
    The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
    Followed their mercenary calling
    And took their wages and are dead.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    —Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Romans, 6:23.

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