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Quotes About Piping

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
~ Abigail Van Buren
I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot.
~ Rick Wakeman
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
~ Pauline Phillips
If living sympathy be theirs And leaves and airs, The piping breeze and dancing tree Are all alive and glad as we: Whether this be truth or no I cannot tell, I do not know; Nay--whether now I reason well, I do not know, I cannot tell.
~ William Wordsworth
He pipes—he pipes—and we must follow—Jem and Carl and Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen— listen—can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
~ Stephen Sondheim
An Otter's range can be 800 to 1,000 miles,' Studd replies, 'but it's also possible to refuel in mid-air as it were, by carrying drums of fuel and piping them into the system.' He laughs. 'I was flying the Director – Dr Laws – back from Halley and the team was piping fuel in from the spare drums carried on board. I made the engines miss on purpose and shouted back to the crew, "Faster, you bastards".
~ Stanley Johnson
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
~ Abigail Van Buren
I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare - or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad - who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare—or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad—who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Like cicadas, which sit upon a tree in the forest and pour out their piping voices, so the leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower.
~ Homer
I compare tradition to a water main: the church suffers from the syndrome of rusty piping. If we could look into our subterranean water systems we would never drink water again. And yet they bring us clean water, even when they are rusty.
~ David Steindl-Rast
And never was piping so sad, And never was piping so gay.
~ W.B. Yeats