Quotes of Fiddle - somelinesforyou

“ There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ”

- Wynton Marsalis

“ Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. ”

- Lincoln Steffens

“ Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. ”

- Victor Borge

“ Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit. ”

- Paul Waner

“ The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ”

- Pietro Mascagni

“ To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle. ”

- Unknown

“ I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace. ”

- Edward Lear

“ We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. ”

- Harold Hal Abelson

“ I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson
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