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;void(0)) . . . DANCING see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links ^ 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.] ^ You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing. --Arnold Bax (18831953) English composer. _Farewell, My Youth_ [1943] - 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 (18881989) 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 (18881989) American songwriter. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" [1936 song] - 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 (18021876) American theologian. - "'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] (18321898) English writer and logician. 'The Lobster Quadrille', _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch.10 [1865] - No sane man will dance. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. 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]. ^ 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." ^ Football is not a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport. --Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty (19151987) American college football coach. Quoted in L.A. Times [5 October 1963]. The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. --Agnes de Mille (19051993) American dancer and choreographer. In _New York Times Magazine_ [11 May 1975]. [Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx):] I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home. --"Duck Soup" [1933 film] Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Dance is the hidden language of the soul. --Martha Graham (18941991) American dancer and choreographer. Shall we dance? On a bright cloud of music shall we fly? --Oscar Hammerstein II (18951960) American songwriter. "Shall We Dance?" 1951 song from the musical _The King and I_ Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live each day As if there were no tomorrow. --Irish proverb I got started dancing because I knew that was one way to meet girls. --Gene Kelly (19121996) American dancer, actor, and choreographer. - 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 (19181986) American playwright and lyricist. (Music by Frederick Loewe.) "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the 1956 play _My Fair Lady_. - 'Tain't no sin to take off your skin And dance around in your bones. --Edgar Leslie (18851976) American songwriter. "Tain't No Sin" [1929] Come and trip it as ye go. On the light fantastic toe. To dance is to live. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. "L'Allegro" [1645] [Writing about ... I-Pods?:] Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who did not hear the music. --attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) 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] (19111995) American actress and dancer. [Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) 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 (18031864) 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 (18611941) 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 (18321902) 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. 190159 BC) Roman comic dramatist. [Of Fred Astaire:] Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards and in high heels. --Bob Thaves (fl. 1982) American cartoonist. "Frank and Ernest" (comic strip) [3 May 1982] If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. --Zimbabwe proverb - _Waltz_, in Music, the name of a riotous and indecent German dance. -- Definition in an art dictionary [1825], cited in OED s.v. waltz. 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] - 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 London dancing school: Mind The Steps. - 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 ----- 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 . . see: "ADVENTURE" see: "CAUTION" see: "CHALLENGE" see: "COURAGE" see: "FEAR" see: "RISK" A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies. --Aristotle (384322 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 (15611626) 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. Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. The frumious Bandersnatch! --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. _Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. I [1872] 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 (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph. --Pierre Corneille (16061684) French dramatist. _Le Cid_ [1637] - 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 (18031882) American philosopher and poet. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_ [1841] "Prudence" - Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. --Cordell Hull (18711955) American lawyer, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State for FDR. Attributed in _Reader's Digest_, vol. 106 [1975]; attributed as an "African proverb" in other sources. Mad, bad and dangerous to know. --Lady Caroline Lamb (17851828) 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] (3965) Roman poet and republican patriot. Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to [mission described]. As always, should you or any member of your IM force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. --"Mission Impossible" [American TV show 19661973] I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. --Robert Mueller (fl. 1957) American musician. Quoted in "Look" (mag.) [5 March 1957]. The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is to *live dangerously*! --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Gay Science_ (Die frφhliche Wissenschaft), bk. 4 [1882] He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe. --Publilius Syrus (8543 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 (17631825) German novelist. Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 102 [1908 ed.]. 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 (15641616) 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 (18561950) 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 (18611941) 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] Never laugh at live dragons. --J.R.R. [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien (18921973) South African-born English author. _The Hobbit_, ch. 12 [1937] There's a snake hidden in the grass. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Eclogues_, no. 3, l. 93 ----- 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 . . see: "COURTSHIP" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links Faint heart never won fair lady. --William Camden (15511623) English antiquary and historian. _Remains Concerning Britain_ [1605] 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. Quoted in Bill Adler _Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women_, p. 20 [2001]. Take me or leave me; or, as in the usual order of things, both. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "New Yorker" [4 February 1928] No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed: --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_ [1599], Act IV, scene I - 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. - The following are personal ads published in the "The London Review of Books" and compiled in 2007 under the title _They Call Me Naughty Lola_. List your ten favourite albums. I don't want to compare notes, I just want to know if there's anything worth keeping when we finally break up. Practical, forward-thinking man, 35. Box no. 8089. Grave disappointment all round would like to meet serious mistake in a nightie. Box no. 6453. Employed in publishing? Me too. Stay the hell away. Man on inside seeks woman on outside who likes milling around hospitals guessing the illnesses of outpatients. 30-35. Leeds. Box no. 3287. Unashamed triumphalist male for the past 46 years. Will I bore you? Probably. Do I care? Probably not. Box no. 4321. Not everyone in this column is a deranged, cross-dressing sociopath. Let me know if you find one and I'll strangle him with my bra. Man, 56. Box no. 3221. Mid-fifties man. Recently discovered guilt. Can't wait to try it out. Box no. 7297. Blah, blah, whatever. Indifferent woman. Go ahead and write. Box No. 3253. Like I care. - 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. I'm a freelance journalist. Would you like a free lance? -- 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." ----- philander (verb) [fκ-'lζn-dκr] To flirt or make love with no intention of marriage; to pursue many superficial amorous relationships with women. . . see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links - 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) - 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 (15921644) English poet. My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. --John Ray (16271705) English naturalist and botanist. _A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1670] - 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) . . 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 (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. --William Cowper (17311800) 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]. 'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.' Seize the day, put no trust in the future. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Odes_, bk. I, # 11, l. 7 Thank God It's Friday. --Lima News" (Ohio) [16 December 1937] Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Moral Sayings_, 633 - 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 (17881860) German philosopher. _Parerga and Paralipomena_ (Minor Works and Remnants) [1851] Every evening we are poorer by a day. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. _Studies in Pessimism_ [1851] "The Vanity of Existence" - For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. --Edwin Way Teale (18991980) American naturalist, writer, and photographer. _Circle of the Seasons_ [1953] ----- circadian (adj.) 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