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Quote by Victor Borge
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. – Victor Borge

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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. – Victor Borge

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Humor is something that thrives between mans aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. – Victor Borge

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There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you cant become a virtuoso in both. – Ethel Barrymore

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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. – Jean Rhys

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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm – Leonard Bernstein

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