Burned Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

— Anonymous

“Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”

— Seanan McGuire

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

— Duke Ellington

He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a…

— Elmer Kelton

“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back”

— Jerry Garcia

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

— Amanda Shires

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is…

— Sheldon Harnick

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

— Natalie MacMaster

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main…

— Anonymous

Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't…

— Shel Silverstein

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the…

— Rory Block

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

— Samuel Johnson

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

— Henry George Bohn

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle…

— Edgar Lee Masters

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

— George Herbert