Hireling Quotes

#1. Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Samuel Johnson

#2. A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

Epicurus

#3. There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

George Eliot

#4. In the final analysis, photography ... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

#5. Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Francis Scott Key

#6. To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

Saint John Chrysostom

#7. One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone.

Homer

#9. Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#10. For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

John Milton

#12. Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

Marie Forleo

#13. I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

Harbhajan Singh

#14. Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

Dale Carnegie

#15. We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning.
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Cassandra Clare

#16. The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#17. An excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

Gary Lineker

#18. Imitation cannot go above its model.

Ralph Waldo Emerson