Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.
- Noah Webster
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
- Francis Bacon
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.
- John Locke
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point dancing it.
- Isadora Duncan
When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand.
- John Clarke
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
- Byron
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
- Ted Shawn
Dancing is the body made poetic.
- Ernst Bacon
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
- Twyla Tharp
Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?
- Jean-Christophe Mailo
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
- Lord Chesterfield
They love dancing well that dance barefoot upon thorns.
- Thomas Fuller
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
- Thomas Gray
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
- Byron
Everyone is not happy who dances.
- Unknown - A French Proverb
Come, and trip it as ye go, on the light fantastic toe.
- Milton
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
- Artie Shaw
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