Dance Quotes
A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls.~ Russian Proverb
All are not merry that dance lightly. ~ English Proverb
An old cat will never learn to dance.~ Moroccan Proverb
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~ Author Unknown
A smart witch can also dance without a broomstick. ~ German Proverb
A woman who dances too much gets ill from little work.~ French Proverb
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~ William James
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.~ W.H. Auden
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. ~ Samuel Beckett
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. ~ Author Unknown
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~ Martha Graham
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~ George Balanchine
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~ Martha Graham
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~ Sweetpea Tyler
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~ Martha Graham
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~ Constanze
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~ John Dryden
Dancing is the world’s favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t dance on a volcano.~ French Proverb
He who has an egg in his pocket does not dance.~ Gabonese Proverb
He who has no shoes dances in his socks.~ German Proverb
How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~ William Butler Yeats
I dance to the tune that is played.~ Spanish Proverb
I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~ George Balanchine
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If everyone is going to dance, who, then, would watch? ~ Cameroonian Proverb
If you’ve enjoyed the dance, pay the musicians.~ German Proverb
If you can’t dance well, you’d better not get up.~ Nigerien Proverb
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.~ Zimbabwean Proverb
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~ Ruth St. Denis
It is always the fat ones who lead the dance.~ Swiss Proverb
It is of course possible to dance a prayer. ~ Glade Byron Addams
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ~ Shanna LaFleur
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~ William Stafford
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… ~ Susan Polis Shutz
Life is like a ballet performance — danced only once.~ Malian Proverb
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it. ~ Martha Graham
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~ Mr. Miyagi
Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger. ~ Sweetpea Tyler
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry
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. ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron
Only chained bears dance.~ Russian Proverb
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~ John Wain
Shake it ’til the moon becomes the sun. ~ Vada Nobles
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~ Source Unknown
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~ Peter Saint James
The bear dances but the tamer collects the money.~ Russian Proverb
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~ Mata Hari
The devil dances in empty pockets. ~ English Proverb
The hunt is like a dance for men. For the women the dance is the hunt. ~ Austrian Proverb
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~ Vicki Baum
The rich man never dances badly.~ Rwandan Proverb
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~ Agnes de Mille
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. ~ Terence
Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.~ Jamaican Proverb
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~ Agnes De Mille
To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.~ Indian Proverb
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Hopi Indian Saying
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~ Japanese Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance.~ West African Proverb
Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.~ Yiddish Proverb
With time even a bear can learn to dance.~ Yiddish Proverb
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~ Author Unknown
You cannot dance well on only one leg.~ Mozambican Proverb
You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.~ French Proverb

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