dance quotes and poems

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~Ovid, Metamorphoses There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. ~Lemony Snicket



Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester



...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 18



When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don't remember me nor I them. But I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses



The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. ~Thomas Fuller



Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth. ~Terri Guillemets



One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer



The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. ~Wilbur Wright



When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~Garrison Keillor



The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille



Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928



A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb



The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer



Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary



Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb