Quote

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Edges
Powers
Piano
Teeth
Notably
Instruments
Enlarges
Musical
Enriches
Age
Violin
Seems
Edge

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
Mark Twain
Image
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training the odds are too heavy.
Mark Twain
Image
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Mark Twain
Image
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Image
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
Mark Twain
Image
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Image
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
Mark Twain
Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Mark Twain
Image
My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.
Mark Twain
Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain
Image
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
Mark Twain
Image
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
Mark Twain
Image
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Image
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
Image
People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Mark Twain
Image
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Image
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark Twain
Image
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
Image
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
Mark Twain
Image
My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
Mark Twain