"Good talkers are only found in Paris."

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Source : "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,

Francois Villon

#Paris Quotes #Found Quotes #Talkers Quotes

“Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.”
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

Source : Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)
“Love is inseparable from knowledge.”
“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”
“As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.”
“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.”
“I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.”
“It's not how long; it's how strong.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jackie Warner from Jul 26, 2013

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