Quotes
Quotes about Dance
It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' He replied, I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing. They then said in derision: If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter. It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
The Fisherman Piping A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.
The Fox and the Monkey A monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King. A Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it. The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
