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Letter "T" » twin
«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.»
Author: Edward Lear
(Painter, Writer)
| Keywords:
distressed, fiddle, fiddling, The Violin, twin, Twins, violin
«Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, Distrust.If one breaks in your heart the other must.»
«In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
Binet, chin, chinned, chins, dark horse, Dark Room, distended, dust cloud, feed on, flew, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, hoofs, hooves, horse sense, nostril, nostrils, occupations, scatter, sparks, take it on the chin, There Is Nothing Left, The Dark Room, twin, wheels
«Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Accuracy
| Keywords:
accuracy, dishonesty, inaccuracy, twin, twin brother
«I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.»
Author: Roman Polanski
(Actor, Film Director)
| Keywords:
apartment, apartment building, concierge, ground floor, menaces, Parisian, Parisians, The Landlord, twin, upstairs
«Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Doubt,
Faith,
Pain
| Keywords:
brother, twin, twin brother
«All who joy would win - Must share it - happiness was born a twin»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
twin
«All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.»
«Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding»
«It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
annihilation, irony, sturdy, sublime, twin, twin brother
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