He who pays the piper calls the tune.


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The one who pays the piper calls the tune
AMERICAN PROVERB
The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the ...
ANTONIN SCALIA
They say he who pays the piper dictates the tune,that's why man's spirit is a slave to man's flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
ROBERT PLANT
Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distanc...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and b...
RICK RIORDAN
Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.
RICK RIORDAN
And it's whispered that soon if we all call a tune, then the Piper will lead us to reason. And a new...
LED ZEPPELIN
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who does...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
He is the Pied Piper to the children of the world.
MARGRETHE II
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
MARIE DE FRANCE
He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
BING CROSBY
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who p...
HENRY FORD
He who pays homage to those who deserve homage, whether the awakened (Buddha) or their disciples, th...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern whi...
SYDNEY CARTER
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.
ZHUANGZI
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
BRENT WEEKS
She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
JOHN HURT
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN
The Pied Piper enjoyed people enjoying themselves. He was colorblind and race-blind and religion-bli...
HANK GREENBERG
Who pays for that?
STEVE HAMILTON
God doesn't call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies th...
RICHARD PARKER
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
PATTI SMITH
Leo scratched his head. “Well I dunno about Enchiladas—”
“Enceladus,” Piper corrected...
RICK RIORDAN
He pays attention to everything.
LAURA SEEGER
Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: I...
RICK RIORDAN
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to every...
LINDA GRAY
It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.

Greenmantle knew the proverb.

He wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', wh...
TERRY A O'NEAL
He's kind of like the Pied Piper.
JASON TODD
Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN
He that dies pays all debts
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He that dies pays all debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?
C. FERN COOK
*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
RUSSELL T. DAVIES
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.
RICK RIORDAN
The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's gra...
MIKE YACONELLI
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no contro...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control....
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboa...
RICK RIORDAN
He that possesses any Thing he has bought, pays Interest for the Use of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that dies pays all his debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.
NICK FROST
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
ANON.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
ANONYMOUS
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives, Meets...
EDWARD YOUNG
He that buys upon Credit, pays Interest for what he buys.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He really works with you and pays attention.
JOSH THOMAS
God does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays
ANNE OF AUSTRIA
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT
WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?
CASSANDRA CLARE
Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t...
RICK RIORDAN
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
MARY H. WALDRIP
Tim pays homage to Ray Harryhausen and George Pal and people whose films he saw growing up and who a...
LEONARD MALTIN
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
He never ever did anything slipshod. Never. If it required a Piper Cub, he'd give you a Boeing 747.
ELAINE TARR
Skier; one who pays an arm and a leg for the opportunity to break them.
UNKNOWN
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor...
JAMES GOSS
I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh...
STEVEN MOFFAT
The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put...
STEVEN MOFFAT
It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
STEVEN MOFFAT
Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir.
The Doctor: Ah, there you ar...
STEVEN MOFFAT
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
STEVEN MOFFAT
Geronimo!
STEVEN MOFFAT
You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
STEVEN MOFFAT
It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost defin...
JAMES GOSS
One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
PIPER LAURIE
He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept -...
RICK RIORDAN
He always gets you in the mood to play. He pays attention to little details that help you win the ga...
CHAD AKINS
An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten
OSCAR WILDE
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer o...
DAVE BARRY
He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
RICHARD BACH
Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said.
“Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement.
“Mom,” Piper s...
RICK RIORDAN
Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpz...
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