Irish Set Dancing

Famous quotes containing the words irish, set and/or dancing:

    The Irish say your trouble is their
    trouble and your
    joy their joy? I wish
    I could believe it;
    I am troubled, I’m dissatisfied, I’m Irish.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)