Marriage is like a formality for me.

I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it,…

— Tom Ford

In general, I don't like formality at all.

— Tzipi Livni

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities.…

— Laurie Graham

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— Charles Dickens

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like another nail.

— Homer Simpson

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

— Ambrose Bierce

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

— Anna Quindlen

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a…

— John A. Lejeune

“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

— Berkeley Breathed

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need…

— Wendell Berry

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened…

— Eric Clapton

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

— Alexei Navalny

“You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven’t gotten around to yet.”

— P.J. Tracy

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the…

— Todd Rundgren