
Comment posted on David Brin's blog, 2013-02-06 http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-my-other-awful-movie-adaptation.html?showComment=1141100368536#c114110036853202234,
Como las paga el vulgo, es justo
hablarle en necio para darle gusto.
Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, line 47. (1609). Translation from Marvin A. Carlson Theories of the Theatre (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1984] 1993) p. 62.
… porque como las paga el vulgo [las comedias], es justo / hablarle en necio para darle gusto
del Arte nuevo de hacer comedias, vv. 47-48).
Variant: Como las paga el vulgo, es justo
hablarle en necio para darle gusto.
Comment posted on David Brin's blog, 2013-02-06 http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-my-other-awful-movie-adaptation.html?showComment=1141100368536#c114110036853202234,
“You don't pay prostitutes to come to your house; you pay them to leave.”
Attributed to Charlie Sheen by Jon Cryer https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jon-cryer-reveals-inside-insane-782410
Foreword to Wikis for Dummies
Pouf Positive
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
1:28:29 English http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/12021.htm Latin http://www.augustinus.it/latino/dottrina_cristiana/index2.htm
Latin: Sed cum omnibus prodesse non possis, his potissimum consulendum est, qui pro locorum et temporum vel quarumlibet rerum opportunitatibus constrictius tibi quasi quadam sorte iunguntur.
De doctrina christiana
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.