Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and let it take me. But I know sooner or later I will have to get out, that I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toes - the splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life.
My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.
Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.