Henry Fielding on dance
Henry Fielding88 quotes“Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.”
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.
Jim CarreyJim Carrey If you’re making tik-tok videos of coordinated dances,you are neither busy nor sacrificing your life.
Candace OwensCandace Owens I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s country music and dancing alone in my room.
Olivia RodrigoOlivia Rodrigo Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
Annie DillardAnnie Dillard It’s important to make sure you move your body every day.
Ziggy MarleyZiggy Marley I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
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