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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