No longer pipe, no longer dance. [ Proverb ]
No man in his senses will dance. [ Cicero ]
A fool can dance without a fiddle. [ Proverb ]
I will make him dance without a pipe. [ Proverb ]
All are not merry that dance lightly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The poor must dance as the rich pipe. [ German Proverb ]
I will not dance to every fool's pipe. [ Proverb ]
He'll dance to nothing but his own pipe. [ Proverb ]
You will neither dance nor hold the candle. [ Proverb ]
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen. [ William Shakespeare ]
Others import yet nobler art from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. [ Pope ]
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. [ Pope ]
The rain-drops' showery dance and rhythmic beat,
With tinkling of innumerable feet. [ Abraham Coles ]
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]
Dance, laugh, and be merry; but be also innocent. [ Theodore Barriere ]
You may dance on the ropes without reading Euclid. [ Proverb ]
Let her that will not dance turn out of the wedding. [ Proverb ]
When you dance, take heed whom you take by the hand. [ Proverb ]
You will dance at the end of a rope without teaching. [ Proverb ]
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They love dancing well, that dance barefoot upon thorns. [ Proverb ]
There is many a good wife, that cannot sing and dance well. [ Proverb ]
It was surely the devil that taught women to dance, and asses to bray. [ Proverb ]
Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs. [ Lemontey ]
At fifteen, to dance is a pleasure; at twenty five, a pretext; at forty, a fatigue. [ A. Ricard ]
They teach us to dance; O that they could teach us to blush, did it cost a guinea a glow! [ Madame Deluzy ]
Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Sturdy swains, in clean array, for rustic dance prepare, mixed with the buxom damsels hand in hand. [ John Phillips ]
Music is the metre of this poetic movement, and is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music. [ Richter ]
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, and beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. [ Wordsworth ]
In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love; as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance. [ A. Karr ]
Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. [ Homer ]
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. [ Percival ]
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine. [ Abraham Coles ]
Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]
We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]