The one who pays the piper calls the tune


American Proverb

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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
PROVERB
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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
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MELINA MARCHETTA
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
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 the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everyt...
HENRY JAMES
Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS
I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.
KIERA CASS
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINE
I smiled to myself, thinking of America, measuring her against the other girls. She was pretty, if a...
KIERA CASS
Don't tug your ear with anyone else. That's mine.
KIERA CASS
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distanc...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If you do not even know one as yourself, then you do not even know them as other.
AARON SANTOS
Love is just a word until you find that person to give it meaning
ANDY STEWART
I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one.
STEPHANIE PERKINS
The other problem is that she hasn’t arrived.”
“Oh, yeah? And who is she?”
“Wel...
MEGAN KARASCH
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
PATTI SMITH
*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
RUSSELL T. DAVIES
If me dying meant you living, how could that be anything but good?
KIERA CASS
Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
DEREK LANDY
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN
It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and...
KIERA CASS
The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS
And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX
Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT
He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
NICK HARKAWAY
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For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND
I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD
He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD
For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD
Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD
Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD
If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD
This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD
This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA
The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD
A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD
Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD
Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD
The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD
To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD
Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE
Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE
Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE
And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE
He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE
God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords...
THE BIBLE
The highest form of wisdom is kindness
THE TALMUD
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
THE TALMUD
Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and ...
THE TALMUD
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
THE TALMUD
Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD

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