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DANCING

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Lauren Bacall (1924— ), US movie actress
who married Humphrey Bogart.

Lauren Bacall attended a New Year's Eve at which
the Shah of Iran was one of the distinguished
guests. He complimented her on her dancing:
"You dance beautifully, Miss Bacall."

"You bet your ass, Shah," she replied.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Heaven,
I'm in heaven,
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak;
And I seem to find the happiness I seek,
When we're out together dancing
Cheek to cheek.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
"Cheek to Cheek" (song)
in the musical film "Top Hat" [1935].


There may be trouble ahead,
But whille there's moonlight and
music and love and romance,
Let's face the music and dance.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
"Let's Face the Music and Dance" [1936 song]

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Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting
to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are
fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
--Horace Bushnell (1802—1876)
American theologian.

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"'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail,
'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?'"

--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
'The Lobster Quadrille',
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch.10 [1865]

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No sane man will dance.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

You got to sing like you don't need the money
Love like you'll never get hurt
You got to dance like nobody's watching
It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work
--Susanna Clark & Richard Leigh

The girls in Canadian lap dancing bars are allowed to remove
all their clothes and touch the customers, but while this
is undoubtedly a Good Thing, we should remember that Canada
is home to 87% of all the world's mosquitoes.
--Jeremy Clarkson (1960— )
British journalist and broadcaster.
In "Sunday Times" [18 July 1999].

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Walter [Cronkite]'s mother, Helen, died in 1993 at the age of 101.
Well into her '90s, Mrs. Cronkite was said to have dated
like a schoolgirl and danced her way to happiness. Once,
Walter called to ask how she was, and she replied,
"Oh, I had the best time dancing last night. But I had
to keep slapping my date."

Dumb struck, Walter asked, "Was he getting fresh?"

"Oh, no," Helen Cronkite said, "he's old. He kept
passing out; I had to keep reviving him."

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The truest expression of a people is
in its dances and its music. Bodies
never lie.
--Agnes de Mille (1905—1993)
American dancer and choreographer,
In _New York Times Magazine_ [11 May 1975].

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
--Martha Graham (1894—1991)
American dancer and choreographer.

I got started dancing because I knew that
was one way to meet girls.
--Gene Kelly (1912—1996)
American dancer, actor, and choreographer.

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Eliza:
Bed! Bed! I couldn't go to bed!
My head's too light to try to set it down!
Sleep! Sleep! I couldn't sleep tonight.
Not for all the jewels in the crown!

I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.
I'll never know
What made it so exciting;
Why all at once
My heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me,
I could have danced, danced, danced all night!

--Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986)
American playwright and lyricist.
(Music by Frederick Loewe.)
"I Could Have Danced All Night"
from the 1956 play _My Fair Lady_.

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Come and trip it as ye go.
On the light fantastic toe.
To dance is to live.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
"L'Allegro" [1645]

And those who were seen dancing were thought to
be insane by those who did not hear the music.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation.
Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance
at the same time.
--Ginger Rogers [Virginia Katherine McMath] (1911—1995)
American actress and dancer.

[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression
of a horizontal desire.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
In "New Statesman" [23 March 1962].

These sort of boobies think that people come to
balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone
knows that the real business of a ball is either
to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or
to look after someone else's wife.
--Robert Smith Surtees (1803—1864)
English sporting journalist and novelist.
_Mr Facey Romford's Hounds_ [1865]

Let your life lightly dance on the edges
of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the
abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial
altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue
of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.
--Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832—1902)
American clergyman.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more
brains in their feet than their head, and think to play
the fool with reason.
--Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190—159 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred
Astaire did, but she did it backwards and
in high heels.
--Faith Whittlesey (1939— )
American diplomat.

If you can walk, you can dance. If
you can talk, you can sing.
--Zimbabwe proverb

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Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances.
{studio official's comment on Fred Astaire}
--anon., in Bob Thomas _Astaire_ [1985].

Deep inside, however, I always thought it was sad that Americans
didn't dance any more. Sure, we turn on really crappy music at ear-
splitting volume, and we stand around simulating sex. Oh, yeah.
Move over, Fred and Ginger. Listen, people used to DANCE. There were
steps, and the men led and the women followed, and it was romantic
and classy, and you could talk over the music. If you don't know a
dance with actual steps, you can NOT dance, no matter how cool you
think you look at the club, grinding your ignorant pelvis against
empty space.
--"Steve H." from an internet blog [c. 2004]

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There was a young girl of Darjeeling
Who could dance with such exquisite feeling
There was never a sound
For miles around
Save of fly-buttons hitting the ceiling.
--#285, _The Limerick_ [1964]

There was an old clerk of Columbus
Who wearied of totalling numbus;
So he moved to East Lansing
And spent his time dancing
Maxixes, merengues, and rhumbus.
--anon.

Why don't they get taller dancers, instead
of having ballerinas dancing on tiptoe.
--anon.

Notice outside dancing school: Mind The Steps.

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I went to the ballet one day
To broaden my mind in a way,
But I have to admit
I did not like one bit,
All that dancing and prancing affray.

I quite liked the ladies in frocks
But the men I'm afraid gave me shocks
In the tightest of tights
Under theatre lights;
Had they no other place for their socks?

--anon

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TOPICAL

Once Footloose,
Bangalore Clubs
Are Now Dancing-Free

To Rein In Western Influence,
Indian City Tightens Rules;
DJs Lower the Volume

By Eric Bellman
_the Wall Street Journal_
[November 7, 2005]

BANGALORE, India -- On a Saturday night, club owner Amardipta "Deep" Biswas was locked in battle with six policemen in the rain. The cops were blocking people from entering his club after unconfirmed reports that people inside were breaking the law, by dancing.

"We've turned down the music and stopped the dancing!" he pleaded to an indifferent deputy commissioner of police lounging in a chauffeured cruiser. "We'll even put on traditional Indian music. Just please let us stay open." Unimpressed, the lawman rolled up a tinted window and waved his driver on.

The city fathers of this conservative part of India's Hindu heartland recently dusted off old morality codes that effectively outlaw dancing. The move was a reaction to the rising temperature of the club scene in India's version of Silicon Valley — a reflection of the discomfort traditional Indians feel as their young sons and daughters drift toward Western ways and mores.

Since it opened 10 months ago, Mr. Biswas's Thailand-themed restaurant and bar "Taika" has been one of Bangalore's hottest clubs. On Saturdays before the new law, the dance floor was packed with more than 500 of Bangalore's brightest engineers, consultants and call-center employees, bouncing to hip-hop and house music from the West.

Today, Taika's dance floor — which boasts an $80,000 sound system and the biggest sub woofer in India — is filled with sofas, chairs and tables, all intended to obstruct would-be dancers. [. . . ]

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fandango (noun)
Spanish dance: a vigorous Spanish or Latin American
dance in triple time, traditionally performed by a
man and woman as a courtship ritual

terpsichorean (adj.) [tκrp-sκ-'kor-ee-yκn] Pertaining to dance.





DANGER

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see: "ADVENTURE"
see: "CAUTION"
see: "CHALLENGE"
see: "COURAGE"
see: "RISK"


A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though there
be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625], "Of Empire"

It [Australia] has more things that will kill you than anywhere
else. Of the world's ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian.
... If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected
manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or
carried out to sea by some unexpected currents, or left to stagger
to death in the baking outback. It's a tough place.
--Bill Bryson (1951— )
American writer of humorous travel books.
_In a Sunburned Country_ [2000]

In extreme danger, fear turns a
deaf ear to every feeling of pity.
--Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C.—44 B.C.)
Roman military and political leader.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try
to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger.
But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce
the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

When there is no peril in the fight,
there is no glory in the triumph.
--Pierre Corneille (1606—1684)
French dramatist.
_Le Cid_ [1637]

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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity,
but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there
is life there is danger.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.


In skating over thin ice, our
safety is in our speed.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_ [1841] "Prudence"

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Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
--Lady Caroline Lamb (1785—1828)
English wife of 2nd Viscount Melbourne.
Diary entry on her meeting with Lord Byon [March 1812].

Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for
20% of all fatal accidents. . . .Do not stay
at home: 17% of all accidents occur in the
home. . . Do not walk on the streets or
pavements: 14% of all accidents occur to
pedestrians. . . Do not travel by air, rail,
or water: 16% of all accidents happen on
these. . . Only .001% of all deaths occur
in worship services in church, and these
are usually related to previous physical
disorders . . . Hence the safest place
for you to be at any time is at church!
--Mark Leslie

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has
put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
--Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65)
Roman poet and republican patriot.

He is safe from danger who is
on his guard even when safe.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_

A timid person is frightened before a danger,
a coward during the time, and a courageous
person afterwards.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.

Constant exposure to dangers will
breed contempt for them.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

Soothsayer: Beware the ides (15th) of March ...
Caesar: The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_ [1599] act I, sc. 2 & act 3, sc. 2,
(Based on Suetonius _Julius Caesar_ [c. 120].)

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern
society than poor women without chastity.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but
to be fearless in facing them. Let me not be for the
stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering_, p. 205 [1919]

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baleful (adj.) ['beyl-fκl]
Threatening harm, ominous or sinister.

parlous [PAR-luhs], adjective:
Attended with peril; fraught with danger; hazardous.

portent [POR-tent], noun:
1. A sign of a coming event or calamity; an omen.
2. Prophetic or menacing significance.
3. Something amazing; a marvel.
Related:
portend - to give an omen or sign of.
portentous - ominous, foreboding.

precipice [PRES-uh-pis], noun:
1. A very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; a cliff.
2. The brink of a hazardous situation.

temerity (noun) [tκ-'me-rκ-ti]
Recklessness, foolhardy disregard for danger.

tocsin [TOCK-sin], noun:
1. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
2. A warning.
Ex.: But Mr. Beckett is wise in choosing the form of the myth in which to sound
his tocsin on the condition of human society.
--Brooks Atkinson, "Beckett's 'Endgame,'" "New York Times" [29 January 1958]



DATING

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see: "COURTSHIP"
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in
the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have
a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
--Cher [Cheryl Sarkisian LaPierre] (1946— )
American actress and singer.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer,
but the people don't.
--Carrie Fisher (1956— )
American actress and writer.

No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo,
December when they wed:
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_As You Like It_ [1599], Act IV, scene I

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Commitment: The difference between involvement and
commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of
ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the
pig was committed.
--anon.

My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate.
So I got two girlfriends.
--anon.

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Pick-up lines:

If you were a new hamburger at McDonald's,
you would be a McGorgeous.

Can you help me find my puppy? I think he
went into this cheap motel room.

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Norris has a date to meet a hunchback on the beach. He
gets there at the arranged time, and she isn't there yet.
So, he occupies himself while he's waiting for her. He
waits, and waits, and after a few hours, it's obvious
she's not coming.

On the way home, Norris mutters to himself, "She stood
me up. Damn. I had the hole dug and everything."

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philander (verb) [fκ-'lζn-dκr]
To flirt or make love with no intention of marriage;
to pursue many superficial amorous relationships
with women.



DAUGHTERS

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see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links

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There's two things I know for sure,
She was sent here from heaven,
and she's daddy's little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night,
she talks to Jesus and I close my eyes.
And I thank God for all the joy in my life,
But most of all, for...

Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer.
Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair.
"Walk beside the pony daddy, my first ride."
"I know the cake looks funny,
daddy, but I sure tried."
Oh, with all that I've done wrong,
I must have done something right
To deserve a hug every morning
And butterfly kisses at night.

Sweet sixteen today,
She's looking like her momma
a little more every day.
One part woman, the other part girl.
To perfume and makeup,
from ribbons and curls.
Trying her wings out in a great
big world. But I remember...

Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer.
Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair.
"You know how much I love you daddy,
But if you don't mind,
I'm only going to kiss you on
the cheek this time."
With all that I've done wrong,
I must have done something right.
To deserve her love every morning,
And butterfly kisses at night.

All the precious time
Like the wind, the years go by
Precious butterfly
Spread your wings and fly

She'll change her name today.
She'll make a promise,
and I'll give her away.
Standing in the bride room
just staring at her,
she asked me what I'm thinking,
and I said "I'm not sure,
I just feel like l'm losing my baby girl."
Then she leaned over...and gave me...

Butterfly kisses, with her mama there
Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair
"Walk me down the aisle daddy, its just about time"
"Does my wedding gown look pretty daddy?"
"Daddy don't cry "
With all that I've done wrong, I must have
done something right
To deserve her love every morning
And butterfly kisses
I couldn't ask God for more, man, this is
what love is
I know I've gotta let her go, but I'll always remember
Every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses...

--"Butterfly Kisses"
(written by Bob Carlisle and Randy Thomas)

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To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter;
sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to
endearing fondness.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast
found a son; if not, thou hast lost a
daughter.
--Francis Quarles (1592—1644)
English poet.

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Wu folk are excited when they give birth to a daughter,
But it's not because they hope that she'll run a family house.
They wash her young complexion in peachflower water,
And pray at her young movements men's lust will be aroused.

She's only aged eleven when she puts in rouge and powder,
While at twelve she's coaxing tunes from silken strings.
Her hair, at fourteen years, is tumbling down her shoulders
And her moth's-antennae eyebrows can bewitch.

Mama permits herself — a smile of satisfaction.
She'll fetch a thousand — silver — to the ounce,
When the highest class of customers come seeking her in marriage
And do not spare expense to buy a beauty from the South ...

The client is delighted. He observes to the mother,
'In no way can one reckon that a thousand is too much!'
Let tonight become the night that decides a lifetime's love.
How he piles the golden hairpins and the bangles up. And up! ...

Off they go, then, unconcerned, with no feelings for their kin.
Once a chick's become a grown-up, well-she makes her own way.
Money is what matters. Flesh and blood mean nothing.
For you, and me, and all of us, the mere thought of this is hateful.

--Shao Changheng 'Selling a Daughter' (late 17th century)
_Qing shiduo_ (Qing Bell of Poesy)



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DAWN

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see "TIME" for related links


aurora (noun)
1: in Roman mythology, the goddess of dawn.
2: the dawn or beginning of something.




DAY

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see: "CARPE DIEM"
see: "RISE & SHINE"
see "LIFE" for other related links
see "TIME" for other related links


Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou
knowest not what a day may bring forth.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 27:1

Every day that is born into the world comes
like a burst of music and rings the whole day
through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge,
or a life march, as you will.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
_The Needless Alarm_, l. 132
In John Henry Newman
Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman
During His Life in the English Church [1903].

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Moral Sayings_, 633

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Every day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth,
every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and
sleep a little death.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Parerga and Paralipomena_ (Minor Works and Remnants) [1851]


Every evening we are poorer by a day.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Studies in Pessimism_ [1851] "The Vanity of Existence"

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circadian (adj.) [sκr-'keyd-(i-)yκn]
Pertaining to a 24-hour day, especially,
occurring every 24 hours.


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