quotes about dancing in the rain

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ~Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856



The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley



Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself. ~Hartman Jule



A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews



In dog years, I'm dead. ~Author Unknown



It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde



Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called Life



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied. ~Author Unknown



Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. ~Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquete



A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie



Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ~Thomas Szasz



The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. ~Andre Maurois



There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. ~Proverbs 11:24



One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~Bertrand Russell



You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb



Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957



If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal." ~Fran Lebowitz



Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. ~Ambrose Bierce



I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck