Hand Held Tourist

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? - George Carlin

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins