<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Dancing - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,  That her steps are of light, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,  That her steps are of light, that her home is the air,   And she only par complaisance touches the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034]]></link><description><![CDATA[To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd;  And soon as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd;  And soon as a dance has come to a close,   Another begins, and each merrily goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;  Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11017]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11018]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11020]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dancing days are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11022]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dancing days are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from all duty free,   And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11031]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?   What! panting recline on another than me?    Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,     From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;      What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more  At their speed behold advancing   Modern men and women dancing;    Step and dress alike express     Above, below from heel to toe,      Male and female awkwardness.       Without a hoop, without a ruffle,        One eternal jig and shuffle,         Where's the air and where's the gait?          Where's the feather in the hat?           Where the frizzed toupee? and where            Oh! where's the powder for the hair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze,  And the gay grandsire, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze,  And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,   Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11033</guid></item></channel></rss>