quotes about dancing

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ~Gaston Bachelard



Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown



The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. ~Heinrich von Sybel



Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty. ~Henry Ward Beecher



If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ~Author Unknown



And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ~I Corinthians 13:13



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854



There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. ~Al Oliver



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron



Keep your bike in good repair: motorcycle boots are not comfortable for walking. ~Author Unknown



Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915



It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ~Joseph de Maistre



You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~Max Beerbohm



What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. ~Thomas Carlyle



Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. ~Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974



Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ~Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)



People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez